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One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth

Annual Report

Perkins School
for the Blind

Incorporated March 2, 1829

A member since 1947 of

The New England Association of Colleges

and Secondary Schools

1967

Watertown, Massachusetts 02172

CONTENTS

Report of the Director 5

Annual Meeting of the Corporation 16

Report of the Trustees 17

Report of the Bursar 19

Perkins History 25

Officers 1830-1967 39

Trustees 1830-1967 40

Officers of the Corporation 1967-1968 42

Members of the Corporation 43

Members of the Staff 46

The Class of 1967 53

Registration as of November 1, 1967 61

List of Students 1967-1968 62

Treasurer's Report 66

Accountants' Report 67

The Perkins Endowment 89

Form of Bequest 90

Outline of Perkins History 91

Report of the Director

In retrospect the school year 1966-1967 seems to have been one of the
most important in the history of Perkins, partly for what happened
(luring this time, but more because of the wheels which were set in mo-
tion foretelling important developments for the years immediately to
follow.

However, there were two events which made the school year memo-
rable.

These were the opening of the new Perkins Research Library in
November and the gathering of the International Council of Educators
of Blind Youth on the campus in August. There were also the innumer-
able happenings common to every school year. However, as in recent
years, the problems of deaf-blind children absorbed much of our atten-
tion.

The Centennial Celebrations commemorating the birth of Anne
Sullivan took place, as related in the 1966 report in April of that year.
In that same month I travelled to Hot Springs, Arkansas to deliver a
paper entitled "Implications of German Measles Epidemic" at the Con-
ference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf. It was with
great reluctance that I had accepted this assignment. For one thing it
prevented me from being present in Washington, D. C. when Vice-Presi-
dent Hubert H. Humphrey presented the Handicapped Man-of-the-Year
Award to a deaf-blind Perkins Graduate, Robert J. Smithdas. This was
an occasion of great satisfaction to the Perkins Faculty, and I was loath
to miss it.

In addition, the lack of reliable figures exposed me to the charge of
scaremongering. However, during recent years I had witnessed some-
thing of the distress of parents of rubella victims in England. We felt that
Perkins had a responsibility to warn educators both of the deaf and the
blind of the problems which seemed to be looming so large in the near
future.

At this Conference in Arkansas, which was attended by both Sec-
retary of Health, Education and Welfare Gardner and Commissioner of
Education Harold Howe, a resolution was passed at my request calling
on the United States government to attempt a count of children born de-
fective during the epidemics of rubella which swept the United States in

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1964 and 1965. A similar resolution, submitted at my request, was
adopted by the American Association of Instructors of the Blind at its
Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah that June.

THE PROBLEMS OF RUBELLA

Until recently, rubella, or German Measles, was considered a mild
disease of little consequence. However, in 1941, an Australian physician,
Dr. Norman McAlister Gregg showed that children whose mothers con-
tract rubella during pregnancy (particularly if this occurs during the
early stages) may be born defective. Commonest defects are cardiac
complications, mental retardation, blindness and deafness. Usually if a
child has one of these defects, he has a combination of them.

There have been rubella victims among the deaf -blind at Perkins for
over a decade, and indeed a few among our blind pupils. However, the
total number of deaf-blind children of all types enrolled has been rela-
tively small, never reaching forty. There have been several local epidem-
ics of this disease producing perhaps three or four deaf-blind children,
but until 1964 there have been no widespread epidemics in North
America.

THE 1964-65 EPIDEMICS

The nation-wide epidemics of 1964 and 1965 are said to have en-
dangered two million pregnant women. Estimates of defective children
born as a result run as high as fifty thousand.* Perhaps a thousand of
these are educable deaf-blind children. If so, schools for the deaf or the
blind will need to expand their services for deaf-blind children at least
ten-fold to meet this challenge adequately.

TIMELINESS OF THE ANNE SULLIVAN CENTENNIAL

Early in 1965, when Perkins joined with Dr. Peter J. Salmon, head
of the Industrial Home for the Blind in Brooklyn, to plan a program for
1966 to commemorate the birth of Anne Sullivan a hundred years
earlier, none of this was known. Rumors reached our ears as the months
passed, and in the Perkins Lantern for June 1965 there appeared an
editorial entitled "Do we face a Rubella Wave?" This was probably the
first warning to educators of handicapped youth to be published in a pe-
riodical dealing with special education.

* See "Implications of German Measles Epidemic" by Edward J. Waterhousev
The Perkins Lantern, September 1966.

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Accordingly, we realized that the message of hope for the deaf-
blind which the Centennial Exercises sought to convey, had a vastly in-
creased significance.

This was the situation when Perkins began its 135th year in Sep-
tember 1966 with an enrollment of 306, 34 of whom were deaf-blind.

MISS MARY SWITZER TAKES A LEAD

In November 1966 we learned that our concern for deaf -blind chil-
dren was shared by the United States Government.

Under the leadership of Miss Mary E. Switzer, Commissioner of
Vocational Rehabilitation in the U. S. Department of Health, Education
and Welfare, legislation was at that time being drafted to provide for a
National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults. It was expected that
this Center would be at the Industrial Home for the Blind in Brooklyn,
New York. Dr. Peter J. Salmon its Director who became interested in
deaf -blind pupils before being graduated from Perkins in 1916 had
demonstrated the practicality of rehabilitating deaf-blind adults, partly
under a grant from V.R.A.

During the banquet which I.H.B. held on Anne Sullivan's one hun-
dredth birthday in the Hotel Commodore in New York City, to which
Miss Switzer brought greetings from President Johnson, she became in-
terested in extending this legislation to include children. Although educa-
tion of the handicapped does not fall under the scope of V.R.A. , Miss
Switzer, with the encouragement of Secretary Gardner and Commissioner
Howe, initiated discussions within the Department which eventually led
to amendments attached to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1967 providing for the establishment of a limited number of model
centers for deaf-blind children.*

The Perkins faculty was involved in these discussions from the
start, and frequent visits were made to Washington by the Director and
the Assistant Director.

SERVICES FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN

It was particularly gratifying that the Department of Health, Educa-
tion and Welfare shared our concern over the needs of pre-school deaf-
blind children and their parents.

It has long been recognized that deaf children can benefit from lan-
guage and speech instruction during the pre-school years. This would

* This amendment was passed by the Senate in November and by the House
on Dec. 18, 1967, immediately before adjournment.

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seem to be even more important for deaf-blind children. So far Perkins
has done little with this group other than to attempt individual evalua-
tions from time to time.

The draft of the bill also called for expansion of teacher training
facilities and programs for training other personnel in the techniques of
serving the deaf-blind.

ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES AT PERKINS

Since President Johnson had sent a message to Congress urging the
improvement of services for the deaf-blind, and as the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare was giving wholehearted support to this
idea, the chances that legislation would be approved seemed good
enough for us to take some anticipatory steps.

First of all, it became clear that a strengthening of the administra-
tive structure was desirable at the school to provide more time for plan-
ning and to prepare personnel for new responsibilities as they developed.

With the approval of the Trustees, Mr. Benjamin F. Smith, who
had served as Principal since 1952, was appointed Assistant Director,
and Mr. A. Claude Ellis who had been Director of Athletics since 1953
and Assistant Principal since 1963 became Principal. Mr. Smith's duties
as Principal had included the duties of Dean, which meant he had direct
supervision of all cottage life other than housekeeping activities which
were directed from the Business Offices. Mr. Smith retained these re-
sponsibilities. Mr. Ellis, however, took over the direction of the educa-
tional program, aided by Miss Cynthia Essex, whose schedule was
changed to allow her more time for her duties as Lower School Super-
visor. Miss Essex had been active in the mathematics program at Educa-
tional Services, Inc., and she curtailed some of this work immediately.

In June 1967, Mr. Joel R. Hoff resigned to become principal of the
department for the deaf at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
Mr. Hoff had led our program for deaf -blind children since May 1966,
and directed our program for training teachers for the deaf -blind.

A tentative administration for the proposed expanded services was
setup as follows:

Director E. J. Waterhouse

Assistant Director Benjamin F. Smith

Associate Directors C. J. Davis, in charge of evaluation serv-

ices and research

W. T. Heisler, in charge of teacher-train-
ing, with special attention to recruitment

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For several months Mr. Davis was also listed as responsible for
pre-school services, and late in the spring an arrangement was worked
out jointly with the Boston Center for Blind Children for visits to homes
of deaf -blind pre-school children in our neighborhood.

Mrs. Jane Davis, who was psychometrist on the Perkins faculty for
a number of years prior to the arrival of their children, was employed by
both agencies for this purpose.

During the summer, Miss Elizabeth M. Banta, a doctoral candidate
at Boston University in Maternal and Child Health joined our faculty
and assumed direction of our services (still almost entirely in the plan-
ning stage) to pre-school deaf -blind children and their parents.

Mr. Heisler's inclusion in this program marked his beginning of re-
sponsibilities for the deaf-blind. As Director of Teacher-Training he had
of course been closely associated with Mr. Hoff's work in training teach-
ers for the deaf-blind. Together they had worked out the details of the
cooperative plan with Boston College which replaced our program with
Boston University in September 1966. His success in recruiting candi-
dates for his courses led to his being asked to expand this work to in-
clude candidates for the deaf-blind program — an activity which Mr.
Hoff had never had time to do as effectively as he wished.

In view of this enlarged responsibility, Mr. Heisler voluntarily with-
drew from his annual participation in a summer program for training
teachers of the blind given by the University of Wisconsin at the State
School for the Blind in James ville.

PLANNING ACTIVITIES

The Trustees and the Administration were placed in a difficult
situation.

On the one hand, the legislation for the deaf-blind had not gone
to Congress, and might not pass if it did. The final bill could be entirely
different from the one drawn up with our co-operation.

Also, we had no accurate figures on which to base any plans at all.

However, we knew that a large number of deaf-blind infants were
already over two years of age, and so we decided to prepare ourselves for
maximum expansion at the earliest date.

Early studies indicated the need for new buildings. Consequently
we called in Mr. Edward Diehl who designed the Perkins Research Li-
brary to study the available space. At his request a survey of the cam-
pus, the first since the school was built in 1910-12, was carried out dur*
ing the summer.

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It was decided that two buildings should be erected. The first, just
inside the North Beacon Street entrance on the Beechwood Avenue side,
will provide suites for six families consisting of one or both parents and
their pre-school deaf-blind children during periods of diagnosis and
parent-training. Space will also be available for housing up to sixteen
trainees, either teachers, psychologists or child-care workers.

In addition, a large building, mainly for educational services will be
built along the North Beacon Street fence on the other side of the main
drive. Its capacity was still under study when the year ended.

POPULATION TRENDS

It has become increasingly difficult during the last several years to
predict the future student enrollment. Until recently it was assumed that
the passing of the retrolental wave would bring a rapid drop in enroll-
ment, but while this had already happened in the lowest grades the total
enrollment has remained close to 300. Since 1959 the deaf -blind pupils
have totalled between 30 and 35.

There has been a steady increase of children in the primary and in-
termediate grades who are classified as Perceptually Dysfunctioning.
Whether this group will increase further in number is uncertain. We can
look to a doubling or trebling of deaf-blind children with the increase
due to begin in September 1969. There should be a decrease among
blind pupils by that time, but how large this will be cannot be estimated.
However, no plans for additional student dormitories were considered
during 1966-1967. Our present student capacity is in the neighborhood
of 320, but if a large number of these are deaf-blind who need the serv-
ices of attendants, the school's capacity would be somewhat less.

THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT

A wholly unexpected event this year was the extension of the fed-
eral Fair Labor Standards Act to cover previously exempt non-profit
institutions.

This Act regulates the hours as well as the wages of certain non-
professional types of employees. While our wage scales were satisfactory,
our work schedules for domestic employees, attendants, and some of the
housemothers were not. For example, housemothers enjoying what we
(and they too) considered as "time off" during afternoons were ruled as
being "on duty" if they so much as answered a telephone. Mr. Smith put
it this way, "If one can imagine a family of father and mother and chil-

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dren bound to an eight-hour day, and a forty-hour five-day week, then
one can visualize some of the problems we are facing."

Each of our seven Upper School Cottages has as a result acquired a
two-day-a-week relief housemother. The Lower School Cottages have
each received a full-time additional housemother, giving Anagnos and
Bradlee Cottages four each instead of three, while Glover and Potter
Cottages each have three instead of two. Every cottage has added a relief
cook and maid two days a week.

These new arrangements were made effective in September 1967,
but preparations for the change took up much time in advance. Work
schedules that would be acceptable required the most careful planning.
Living quarters had to be provided and the 1967-68 budget had to make
provisions for the new personnel.

In addition, Perkins submitted arguments to the proper government
officials seeking exemption for our senior housemothers on the grounds
that their duties included some supervisory and administrative activities.
Preparing this case was very time-consuming, but as the point was ac-
cepted, it was well worthwhile.

PROBLEM OF SPACE

The additional housemothers had of course to be provided with
space at the cottages they served. And this meant that there was less
space available for teachers and trainees. Some of the relief domestics
could be non-residents, but since there is a limited supply of such per-
sons in our immediate neighborhood, it was necessary to make space for
others available in a two-family house owned by the School at the corner
of Riverside and Royal Streets adjoining the campus. The tenants of this
property were asked to find other quarters.

It is premature to comment on the effects of F.L.S.A. upon our staff
and pupils. Additional housemothers undoubtedly will result in improved
housekeeping, but the effect on pupils may well be typified by their atti-
tude on arriving in September when they introduced a new "Guessing
Game" entitled "Who is my housemother today?"

The additional cost had to be obtained from increased tuition.
Notice of a tuition increase in September 1967 had been given in May
1966, and notice that this would have to be increased a further $1,000
per annum had to be sent out in May 1967, to become effective that fall.
The state officials in the region we serve are not only cooperative, but
well versed in such financial problems as this, and accepted this situa-
tion with complete understanding.

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THE PERKINS RESEARCH LIBRARY

When the Staff arrived to open our 135th year in September 1966
they found the new Research and Staff libraries ready for their use.
These facilities were officially opened on November 7th, Annual Cor-
poration Day. Miss Isabella S. Diamond, former librarian at the United
States Treasury, and now an active worker with the American Associa-
tion of Workers for the Blind gave an excellent address.*

The new facility, designed by Mr. Edward L. Diehl of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, has received high praise for its beauty and utility. Our
blindiana library, which Dr. Howe started, contains what is believed to
be the largest collection of books on the education of the blind in exist-
ence. For the first time, these books have a worthy home.

THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATORS OF BLIND YOUTH

For several years plans had been in progress for the International
Council of Educators of Blind Youth which the Trustees had invited to
our campus for their fourth quintennial conference in August 1967.f

The conference was held from August 20th to August 26th and was
attended by 277 educators from 50 countries. The program dealt mainly
with the latest methods of teaching blind children. There were nine work-
shops each headed by an outstanding leader in his field. There was also a
demonstration of the latest technological developments at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, ably organized by Mr. John Dupress.

During the week prior to the conference, two Leadership Projects
were held which enabled 84 of the Educators to visit agencies from
Washington, D. C, to New York. One of these groups included a visit
to the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky.
With assistance from a grant from the Vocational Rehabilitation Admin-
istration, about fifty fellowships were granted to cover the expenses of
participants from lesser developed countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin
America.

TEACHER-TRAINING PROGRAM EXPANDS

Beginning in the Fall of 1966 the Perkins Teacher-Training Pro-
grams for preparing teachers of the blind and teachers of the deaf -blind
were transferred from Boston University to Boston College. This, of

* See Perkins Lantern, Dec. 1966, which published Miss Diamond's paper.
t See ICEBY 1967 Proceedings, published by Perkins, and the Perkins Lantern
for Sept. 1967.

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course, did bring about many changes. More significant than this change
in locale, however, were the changes brought about by the fact that fed-
eral funds have become available to colleges and universities to assist in
the financing of programs for training teachers of the handicapped.

These funds which provide financial assistance to the college and
fellowships to a limited number of students are only available for a full-
time program which ours has not been.

As a result it was necessary to expand our program considerably.
In the program for preparing teachers of the blind the number of credits
which could be earned was increased from 12 to 36 leading immediately
to a Master's Degree. Present listing of courses includes: First Semester;
Education of the Blind I, Braille, Student Teaching and Observation,
Dynamics of Blindness, Medical Aspects of Blindness. Second Semester;
Education of the Blind II, Student Teaching and Observation, Education
of the Partially Seeing Child, Education of Exceptional Children, Phi-
losophy of Education. Summer Session; Educational Psychology and
Methods in Research.

The program for preparing teachers of the deaf-blind underwent
similar expansion with an increase in the number of credits which could
be earned from 24 to 39. One new feature of this program was the addi-
tion of a short term course entitled, "Hearing and Deafness", which was
offered during Boston College's intercession period from September
1-20. The revised course listing throughout the year includes: First
Semester; Education of the Blind I, Braille, Methods of Teaching Speech
to the Deaf and the Deaf-Blind, Student Teaching and Observation,
Methods of Teaching Language to the Deaf and Deaf-Blind. Second
Semester; Methods of Teaching Elementary Subjects to Deaf-Blind Chil-
dren, Speechreading and Auditory Training, History, Education, and
Guidance of the Deaf and Deaf -Blind, Speech Science (Anatomy & Physi-
ology of the Speech Mechanism), Internship. Summer Session; Education
Psychology and Methods in Research. This too leads immediately to a
Master's Degree.

An important feature of the present program is the fact that a num-
ber of these courses are offered on the Boston College campus where
previously they had practically all been given at Watertown. This results,
we feel, in a closer tie between the school and the sponsoring university.

While the number of federal fellowships are not sufficient to cover
all the candidates for the courses, Perkins continues to offer scholarships
which though less generous than the federal fellowships are still quite
valuable to the recipient.

During the first year the program worked out well and the success
of this first year bodes well for the future.

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REGIONAL LIBRARY SERVICES

As a result of the new federal legislation the Division of the Blind at
the Library of Congress was expanded in scope to provide "Talking
Books" to handicapped persons who have sight but who, for some rea-
son or other, find it difficult to read ordinary print text. This might in-
clude persons who have difficulty in turning the pages in books or who
have to remain very inactive.

As a result, the State Libraries throughout the country studied the
needs of handicapped persons in their areas. While no decisions were
made as to just what Massachusetts wishes to do (which is the major
area served by Perkins), a decision was made by Rhode Island to estab-
lish its own regional library.

In the meantime, Perkins agreed to provide the talking books to
handicapped persons even though they have sight at no charge to the
reader until arrangements can be made for reimbursement to the school.
Under our Charter it is, of course, not possible to serve persons other
than the blind except on an emergency and temporary basis.

GUIDANCE

Our Guidance program was enriched by the addition of a fourth
Counselor. Mr. Carl J. Davis was busy on the completion of the fed-
erally financed project for the introduction of the Perkins Binet into
general use as the standard test for blind children.

HEALTH SERVICES

Two nurses under the direction of Dr. Victor Balboni gave good serv-
ice to our pupils but we were distressed at the large number of children
who had strep throats during the year. With the hope of preventing
epidemics of this kind, a study was started into the possibility of providing
dishwashing machines in our student cottages. At present we wash our
dishes by hand. This study was underway when school ended. Dr. Mark
Elliott and Dr. Nicholas Albanese took care of our dental needs and Dr.
Trygve Gundersen and members of his staff examined the eyes of our
pupils regularly and made recommendations for surgery and other treat-
ment as required. After some years without a qualified physical therapist
we were able to obtain the services of Mrs. Bernice H. Lowen in this de-
partment.

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SOCIAL SERVICES

Miss Mary Whitelaw continued to head our Social Services and
maintained as close a contact as possible with all our parents and with
the various agencies with whom we cooperate.

HOWE PRESS

The Howe Press had another successful year and produced a record
number of Braillers. The percentage of machines being sold overseas
grows appreciably each year and the Braillers are now in use in seventy-
five countries.

SCHOOL PROGRAM

Under the leadership of Mr. A. Claude Ellis and Miss Cynthia
Essex the academic, athletic, music and industrial arts program was car-
ried out with continuing changes to keep the curriculum and techniques
abreast of what is in the most modern schools. A number of our teachers
were encouraged to take courses relevant to their subjects. The Curricu-
lum Committee, under Mr. Heisler, continued to function effectively.

A WORD OF THANKS

The Administration wishes to express its most sincere thanks to the
many people who have contributed towards the success of this school
year. These include not only the faculty and parents but also a large
number of volunteers, many of whom read to our older pupils regularly
during the evenings and many others who helped to make our social pro-
gram invaluable.

We continue to receive many gifts and bequests without which the
growth of our school would be impossible. I particularly wish to thank
3557 of our friends who contributed $67,184 in response to our annual
appeal for our "Children of the Silent Night".

Respectfully submitted,

Edward J. Waterhouse
Director and Secretary

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CORPORATION
Watertown, Massachusetts, November 6, 1 967

The Annual Meeting of the Corporation, duly summoned, was held at
the School and was called together by the President, Dr. Augustus
Thorndike, at 2:00 p.m. The Annual Report of the Trustees was read by
the Chairman and adopted. The Annual Report of the Treasurer was sub-
mitted, together with the certificate of the Certified Public Accountant.

It was MOVED and VOTED that acts and expenditures made and
authorized by the Board of Trustees, or any committee appointed by said
Board of Trustees, during the last corporate year be and are hereby
ratified and confirmed.

It was also MOVED and VOTED that the nomination by the Fi-
nance Committee and the appointment by the Trustees of Lybrand, Ross
Brothers and Montgomery, Certified Public Accountants, as auditors of
the accounts of the School for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1967, be
and are hereby ratified and confirmed.

The Report of the Director was also accepted.

The following were unanimously elected to membership in the Cor-
poration: Mrs. David B. Arnold, Jr., Concord, Mass.; Mrs. W. Chester
Jostrom, Pembroke, Mass.; Miss Eunice L. Kenyon, Wellesley, Mass.;
Mr. and Mrs. J. Stephenson Hemphill, Watertown, Mass.

The Corporation then proceeded to the choice of Officers for the en-
suing year, and the following persons were unanimously elected by
ballot: President, Augustus Thorndike, M.D.; Vice President, Samuel
Cabot, Jr.; Secretary, Edward J. Waterhouse; Treasurer, Ralph B. Wil-
liams; Trustees, John W. Bryant, Mrs. David B. Arnold, Jr., David
Cheever, Robert H. Hallowell, Jr., Mrs. Frederick J. Leviseur, John
Lowell, Warren Motley, Richard Saltonstall.

There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at two
twenty-five p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Edward J. Waterhouse, Secretary

The Fourth Quinquennial Conference of the International
Council of Educators of Blind Youth met at the Perkins School
for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S.A., from August
20-26, 1967. Present were 277 educators from 54 countries.

At the opening session, John
DiFrancesco (Perkins '39) en-
tertained. On the platform also
are Stewart E. Armstrong, Can-
ada, Sra. Dorina Nowill, Brasil,
Douglas C. MacFarland of the
U.S. Department of Health, Ed-
ucation, and Welfare, K. N. K.
Jussawala, India, the Direc-
tor, President Augustus Thorn-
dike and Mr. Eric T. Boulter,
President of the World Council
for the Welfare of the Blind.

Mr. Finis Davis of the U.S.A. addressing one of the general sessions in Dwight Hal

Instantaneous translation in English, German and Spanish was pro-
vided by professional interpreters in booths erected at the rear of
Dwight Hall.

The most important work of the Conference was done in nine Work-
shops dealing principally with modern methods of teaching.

SAME INITIALS—

A NEW NAME

I.C.E.B.Y. now stands for "In-
ternational Council of Educators
of Blind Youth" instead of "In-
ternational Conference ".

Above: Workshop "I" — Teaching
of Slow Learners, led by S. O.
Myers, United Kingdom attracted
so many delegates that it was split
into several groups.

Below: Workshop "B" — Daily Liv-
ing and Physical Activity was ener-
getically led by Mr. W. J. J.
Kooyman of the Netherlands.

Workshop "D" — Teaching of Numbers was led by Benjamin F. Smith, Assistant Di-
rector of Perkins. Several of our teachers demonstrated with pupils who came in from
their homes from their vacations.

Groups of all sizes from all over the
world talked together between sessions.

International Council of Educators
of Blind Youth

Perkins School for the Blind

Watertown, Mass., U.S.A.

During the I.C.E.B.Y., Chan Poh Lin met
with the two representatives from her
homeland. Mrs. Rosalind Lim is the Senior
Teacher at the Singapore School for the
Blind and Mr. Ronald Chandran-Dudley
is the Administrator of the Singapore As-
sociation for the Blind.

Two delegates following a workshop
talk on the use of the pocket abacus
try it for themselves.

I.C.E.B.Y.

OFFICERS 1967-1972

The following were e

ected in

Watertown:

Chairman of the

Executive Committee

Mr.

Tore Gissler, Sweden

Vice-Chairman

Don Angel Foz Tena, Spain

Secretary

Mr.

ademar Paaske, Denmark

Assistant Secretaries

Mrs

. Ana Maria Benard da Costa, Portugal

Mr.

Armstrong, Canada

Sra.

de Gouvea Nowill, Brasil

Mr.

N. K. Jussawala, India

Mr.

. B. Nnoma, Ghana

Mr.

O. Myers, United Kingdom

Dr.

Tonkovic, Yugoslavia

Dr.

Garbe, Germany

Above: Mr. George Smith, mathematics
teacher at Saint Paul's School, Concord,
New Hampshire spoke to the Conference
about the Dartmouth College shared-time
computer program. Before the I.C.E.B.Y.
meets again in Madrid in 1972, some
schools for the blind may well be partici-
pating in such programs.

Dr. David B. Pitt, Pediatrician from Chil-
dren's Cottages, Melbourne, Australia at-
tends a session of the deaf-blind.

Delegates visited M.I.T. where they saw
several demonstrations of the latest tech-
nical devices for work with the blind.

Mr. Vahram Kashmanian of New Jersey
talks with Mrs. Nama Keshav Ajgaonlcar,
Superintendent of the Dadar School for
Blind Girls in Bombay beneath the por-
trait of Thomas Handasyd Perkins for
whom the school is named.

The museum was a popular place for ex-
changing information and renewing ac-
quaintanceships during the coffee breaks.

Five Americans get together between sessions — Miss Eunice Kenyon, Director of the
Boston Center for Blind Children, Max Woolley, Superintendent of the Arkansas
School for the Blind, Dr. M. Robert Barnett, Executive Director of the American Foun-
dation for the Blind, the Director of Perkins and Harold G. Roberts, Assistant Director
of A.F.B.

Mr. Tore Gissler, Sweden, is the
new Chairman of the I.C.E.B.Y.
Executive Committee. His gavel,
which is a model of the one used
by the United States Supreme
Court, was made for him by Alan
Dalton, a student in the Perkins
Industrial Arts Department.

Mrs. Jayne B. Spain talks at the
Convention Banquet. Mrs. Spain
was awarded a Migel Medal in
1966 for her demonstrations of
the employability of blind
workers at Industrial Fairs in
various countries in Eastern Eu-
rope and North Africa.

Rev. Thomas J. Carroll, Execu-
tive Director of the Catholic
Guild for All the Blind gave
the Invocation at the Conven-
tion Banquet. Here he greets
friends from overseas.

During the Conference the Ameri-
can Foundation for Overseas Blind
presented Service Awards to four
outstanding educators. Shown here
with Mr. Eric T. Boulter, the Asso-
ciate Director, are (L to R) Mrs.
Ana Maria Benard da Costa, Por-
tugal, Sra. Dorina de Gouvea Now-
ill, Brasil, Mrs. Dolores M. Pascual,
Philippines, and Mrs. Wadad La-
houd of Lebanon. This presentation
took place at a dinner given by
the American Foundation for the
Blind and the American Founda-
tion for Overseas Blind at Hugo's
Restaurant in Cohasset.

Don Angel Foz Tena, who will be
one of the hosts to the I.C.E.B.Y.
in Madrid in 1972 receives from
the Director of Perkins the bell
used this year to summon delegates
to meetings.

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Each year the students at Perkins
raise money for blind children
overseas. Before school closed in
June, the Student Councils voted
to donate a Perkins Brailler as a
door prize at the Convention
Banquet to a school in Africa. The
winner was the Pacelli School for
Blind Children in Lagos, Nigeria.
Here Mrs. Adeyola David receives
the Brailler from the Student
Council Presidents, Jo-Ann King
of Adams, Massachusetts, and
Donald Deignan of Rumford,
Rhode Island.

Chan Poh Lin and her teacher, Mr. Leo F. Queenan at the demonstration by deaf-
blind pupils on the closing morning of the I.C.E.B.Y. Conference.

At the Convention Banquet, Mr. Harry J.
Friedman, the Manager of the Howe
Press, presented Mr. Gissler with the
40,000th Perkins Brailler to be manufac-
tured.

S. O. Myers and T. G. Tooze of England
watch Albert Czub test a Perkins Brailler
at the Howe Press. During the week most
of the conferees visited the Howe Press
and saw Perkins Braillers being made.

Prior to the Conference two Leadership
Projects gave 86 Educators from over-
seas an opportunity to learn something
about work for the blind in various parts
of the United States. Both groups visited
Ahe Library of Congress in Washington,
D. C.

Members of one of the two Leadership
Projects visited the Touch and Learn
Center at the Overbrook School for the
Blind, Philadelphia, and are welcomed
by the Curator, Elizabeth Freund.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
1966-1967

The following is submitted on behalf of the Board of Trustees:
This year was notable for two outstanding events:

The opening of the Perkins Research Library

The International Conference of Educators of Blind Youth

The new Library which provides our extensive collection of books
on the education of the blind is now housed for the first time in an appro-
priate building. The official opening took place on Corporation Day, No-
vember 7, 1966.

Two floors provide ample space for the storage of books and work-
ing space for students. It is believed that this collection of books is the
largest on its subject in the world. In the basement is an extensive General
Library for the use of the Perkins staff.

The International Conference of Educators of Blind Youth met on
the school campus in August and was attended by 277 educators from 54
countries. This organization was founded largely as a result of the efforts
of Dr. Gabriel Farrell during the closing years of his Directorship. Three
previous Conferences have been held in The Netherlands in 1952, in Nor-
way in 1957 and in West Germany in 1962. It is believed that as a result
of the deliberations during this fourth Conference that many blind chil-
dren throughout the world will receive a better education.

During this year, the Trustees and the Administration gave serious
attention to the problem of deaf-blind children born as a result of a
Rubella epidemic in 1963 and 1964. Many pregnant women were af-
fected and an unknown number of their offspring were born deaf and
blind.

During the year, the school learned of the concern of the Federal
Government over this problem and cooperated with the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare in preparing registration to help establish
model Centers for the Deaf -Blind.

As the year came to a close, legislation was ready for submission to
Congress and the school had already given considerable thought to its
needs, both in additional buildings and in staff.

It seems obvious now that the long awaited reduction in our num-
bers which was expected with the passing of the retrolental wave will, in-
deed, not take place. Instead, the Rubella wave, which might be even
larger, threatens to affect the whole program of the school for years to
come.

136th Annual Report

We regret to announce the death of the following members of the
Corporation:

Mr. Archie T. Morrison — South Braintree
Miss Mary Esther Sawyer — Boston

Respectfully submitted,

Augustus Thorndike, M.D.
President

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REPORT OF THE BURSAR
For the Fiscal Year 1 966-67

Harvest season is a good time for writing annual reports. While the
bounties of nature are being harvested by intelligent and hardwork-
ing husbandmen, the custodians of Perkins' welfare are reckoning the re-
sults of their efforts during another school and fiscal year.

The budget approved for our fiscal year 1966-67 totaled $2,087,-
315. This amount included $2,074,985 for salaries and expenses,
$12,330 for new equipment. The budget was 8.4% higher than the total
actual operating expenses for 1965-66. Gross payroll increased 9.9%
and was responsible for 82.8% of the total budget increase as compared
with 64.4% last year and 66.5% the year before. Operating expenses
other than payroll increased 5.1%, less than half the amount of the in-
crease in the preceding year. Enrollment stood at 306 students on No-
vember 1, as compared with 300 students last year and 313 the year be-
fore.

Of the gross budget, an estimated $16,945 would be charged to
Howe Press for services supplied by the school. Omitting this item, we
had a net budget of $2,070,370, to be covered by endowment and tuition
income. Our rates for tuition and board, effective since September 1,
1965 were $3700 for blind boarding students, $3100 for blind day stu-
dents, $5000 for deaf -blind boarding students, but it was plain that these
would be insufficient to carry the budget for 1966-67. It was then too late
to change, however, but further increases were announced in June 1966,
to become effective September 1, 1967.

FINAL OUTCOME

When the books were closed on August 31, actual operating ex-
penses totaled $2,060,057, of which $17,293 was allocated to Howe
Press for services rendered, leaving net expenses of $2,042,764. This
divided into $2,031,411 for salaries and expenses, and $11,353 for new
equipment. We had underspent the budget by 1.3%, but expenses had
exceeded income by $32,813. This deficit was not as large as expected,
due partly to good management by department heads and partly to the
excellent handling of our funds by the Treasurer's Office and the Finance
Committee.

The Deaf -Blind Department had another good year, continuing to
operate on a self-supporting basis, with the help of $29,063 from the
principal of the Deaf-Blind Fund. The Deaf-Blind Fund is the beneficiary
of our annual appeal "Children of the Silent Night", contributions to
which obviously serve a great purpose.

20 136th Annual Report

PERSONNEL AND PAYROLL

Many of my annual reports have pointed out that the faculty and
supporting staff are largely responsible for the effectiveness of a school
and this was never more true than now. Neither was it ever more true
that the largest and most important factor in budgeting is payroll. Our
annual survey of compensations, therefore, is as fixed a part of the cal-
endar as the opening of school or the dates for examinations. The survey
involves much paper work, combined with conferences with the person-
nel officers of the institutions who cooperate in our surveys. Preparations
start by Christmas, for the routine of the survey must be under way in
February to be ready for the April meeting of the Executive Committee.

The figures gathered by Miss McCloskey were not startling this
year, and yet they revealed that inflation and other economic influences
were continuing to push rates of pay upward. Since our survey of the
year before, changes had taken place which indicated the need for ad-
justments in Perkins' scales. All departments are not always affected
in the same way at the same time, which perhaps is fortunate. This year,
the survey indicated less change for Office and Library personnel, but
more for Cottage and Maintenance staff members than resulted from
the review a year ago.

As usual, our employment and compensation policies keep most
departments fully manned and encourage career tenure; but the cottages
continue to be the exception. Among 63 cottage positions there were 17
vacancies when school opened in September, and during the school year
we employed 40 new people to keep all positions filled.

The Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which will affect all but
administrative, faculty and professional employees, has been amended
to include non-profit schools and colleges in its regulations. This caused
much study as we worked upon plans for next year. Since that is when
the campus and the budget will first feel the full effect, presentation of
the details will be reserved for the 1968 report.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

The summer of 1967 was a busy one for unusual reasons. We called
it a short summer, because a 4 weeks' summer school in June and early
July and the ICEBY Conference in August, followed by immediate
opening of the 1967-68 school year, left little time and attention for
special projects. Nevertheless a lot of work was done, much of it during
winter and spring recesses, and even while school was in session. The
cost was fairly high — $123,868, of which $67,172 would be charged to
Reserve for Maintenance and Replacement, $56,696 to Income.

Perkins School for the Blind 21

Bennett Cottage was given a fire escape and the inside stairwell was
enclosed as preparation for converting both floors to classrooms for the
Deaf-Blind Department. Stainless steel sinks and counters were installed
to replace the 1912 vintage soapstone sinks and wood counters in the
Upper School cottage kitchens. Similar sanitary improvements were
completed in Lower School cottages several years ago.

Our beautiful Westminster Chimes, a gift of the alumni in 1957,
have been operating erratically for a year or two and repair has become
a problem, because the company which installed the equipment is no
longer in business. Engineers of the Arthur D. Little Company were en-
gaged to redesign the mechanism which was then renovated under their
supervision. Now all is well and we are quite happy about it. The original
side-wall lighting fixtures in Dwight Hall were replaced with new at-
tractive wrought iron sconces, antique Spanish in design and finish. The
public address systems in both Allen Chapel and Dwight Hall were
replaced in time for ICEBY, and speakers were added in the Tower
Rotunda and Library Foyer to carry programs to overflow audiences
who must sit there.

Outdoors there were also interesting and beneficial improvements.
The two "Rocking Boats" on the Lower School playgrounds were rede-
signed and rebuilt. For a long time we have known we would have to
convert part of our Upper School Orchard to parking area and have been
putting it off until it became absolutely necessary. The time arrived last
year, so the job has been done. As parking lots go, ours is beautiful, and
parking space is plentiful for the present. We just hope it will remain
adequate for a long time. Great improvement was made in campus light-
ing during the summer, especially along the driveway from our main
entrance.

Two busy men, the Assistant Director and the Principal, with their
secretaries, were occupying the same small suite of offices and this situa-
tion called for relief. It was found by converting the Boys' Smoking Room
to a suite of 2 very nice offices. The work required most of the summer,
but the new quarters were ready for the Principal and his secretary to
occupy before school opened. Of course substitute space had to be
found for the Boys' Smoking Area, even though we are happy to report
that the number of our smokers has been declining. Our most logical
choice was the tunnel room under the southwest corner of Eliot Cottage,
which actually is just across the driveway from the former location. The
tunnel room was brightened by enlarging the window, improving the
lighting and by painting; and after furnishing, is a very acceptable sub-
stitute.

Our Power House smoke stack was completely rebuilt in 1960.

22 136th Annual Report

Even the special types of brick and mortar built into such a stack de-
teriorate due to heat, flue gases and weather. Our Maintenance Depart-
ment regularly inspects the stack from the ground through field glasses,
which eventually reveals the signs of deterioration. Symptoms not visible
last fall were present in the spring and immediate remedial action was
taken, because both safety and expense would be affected by delay.

Numerous other projects, mostly modest in size, were planned,
approved and carried out. They range all the way from the usual carpen-
try and painting through the various needs for special attention required
by buildings, utilities and major equipment.

DWIGHT HALL ORGAN

It seems appropriate to insert here a brief description of a project
which was carried out under the budget, rather than as a part of special
projects. It involves major renovating of the Dwight Hall organ, which
will be completed in four annual steps. This excellent organ was installed
by Skinner in 1932 as a gift of the alumni and Sir Charles Lindsay, to
commemorate our 100th anniversary. Valued originally at $17,500, it
must now be worth between $50,000 and $75,000. It should have a life
of at least 100 years more, if it is given the right kind and amount of
attention. This responsibility is taken quite seriously by Mr. Paul Bau-
guss, our Director of Music, and the members of his department. An
expert service company cleans, repairs and otherwise works on the organ
regularly.

Greater versatility of tone and range are desired to match the pro-
gressive quality of our chorus work, and it is the purpose of the project
started this year to accomplish that. Each of the 4 annual phases of the
project will deal with a certain section of the organ. This year the Swell
Section, the largest phase, was completed; next year the Great Section
will be renovated, and the Choir and Pedal Sections will follow in the
succeeding 2 years.

OTHER BUSINESS

Government regulations are on the increase, most of them con-
cerned with taxes or wages. Compliance with some is required of non-
profit schools and colleges; from the requirements of others we are ex-
empt, but must prove it. In either case, business routines grow more
complicated, the volume of paper work multiplies. The latest is the
Massachusetts Sales Tax. Perkins is exempt from payment of the tax on
purchases of anything to be used by Perkins, and this must be proved
by issuing to every supplier (sometimes with every purchase order) an

Perkins School for the Blind 23

appropriate exemption certificate. On the other hand, we must charge,
collect and remit taxes on items which we sell to others, such as the can-
ing of chairs, other products of our Industrial Arts Department, and the
occasional sale of merchandise to students and staff members.

Several worthwhile health projects are conducted by Perkins for
the benefit of staff members and their families. We sponsor a good Blue
Cross/Blue Shield/Master Medical Program. Each Fall, influenza inocu-
lations are given to staff members and members of campus families. Also
each Fall, the County Mobile Unit comes to Perkins to do staff chest
x-rays. X-rays are required by the state before employment can become
permanent and must be repeated every three years thereafter. Staff
members wishing this protection annually may have it by filing their
requests. Our latest project is the inauguration of a Perkins Blood Bank
in connection with Red Cross. Participation in this project by staff mem-
bers eligible and willing to do so makes blood available to any staff mem-
ber or a member of his immediate family without cost in time of need.
Organizing of all these health projects centers in the Personnel Office,
which does an excellent job in consultation with the Administration and
our Health Department.

A lot has been said in our reports of recent years about safety and
fire prevention, but we have not said anything about our plans for action
in case of fire. A complete set of fire drill procedures or regulations has
been worked out for staff and students to follow. It has been duplicated
and bound, and a copy is placed in the hands of every employee. Of
course, the regulations have been approved by our local Fire Department
and copies are on file there as well. State regulations require a minimum
of 1 fire drill per month while school is in session; 4 of which must be
observed by the Fire Department. A practice drill must be held within 3
days of the opening of school. That one is announced in advance after
fire drill procedures have been rehearsed by housemothers with pupils
and staff. All subsequent drills are surprise drills. We hold the first sur-
prise drill within a week after the practice drill so that everyone will be-
come familiar with procedures as early as possible in the school year. By
the November drill, school buildings are being evacuated in 2 minutes,
and within 8 minutes of the first alarm every student enrolled is ac-
counted for.

The property at the southeast corner of North Beacon Street and
Beechwood Avenue (listed as 207 North Beacon Street) could some
day be quite important to Perkins. We have been watching it for years.
This year it came on the market at a price which seemed reasonable and
we bought it. Papers were passed on August 15. The house is old and
not very attractive and we may remove it. A little work on the grounds

24 13 6th Annual Re port

would then create a condition favorable to the neighborhood, and future
developments could indicate the next step.

Two important activities required the cooperation of the Operating
Departments and Business Offices, paving the way for a lot of interesting
experience. A 4 weeks' summer boarding school, conducted under Title
I from mid- June to mid- July, kept many facilities operating which usually
close down right after graduation. The 4 cottages of the Girls Close were
kept open and had to be staffed; the Power House had to operate to pro-
vide steam and power and hot water; and, of course, the Stores Department
and Laundry were in full swing to provide the food and other housekeep-
ing needs. They finally closed July 14, only to reopen August 15, when
we started readying the cottages and supporting facilities for the ICEBY
Conference August 20 to 26. The busier than usual summer also affected
all offices and the Library, and vacations had to end by August 1. Al-
though this meant many sacrifices, the enthusiastic cooperation given
the projects by the personnel of all departments proved our common
desire to help Perkins do things right, a spirit which is much appreciated
by the Administration.

The year contained several high spots which gave me particular
pleasure. The first of these was the presentation of the Migel Award by
the American Foundation to Dr. Waterhouse in the professional field
and Mrs. Jayne B. Spain in the lay field. Everyone associated with Per-
kins felt the significance of this great honor, agreeing with AFB officials
in their choice of Dr. Waterhouse to receive it. We know the extent of
his devotion and the amount of his effort. Several of us, with our wives,
journeyed to New York to attend the ceremonies. A week later, the
staffs of Perkins and Howe Press expressed their pleasure over the event
by presenting to Dr. Waterhouse a resolution bearing all of their signa-
tures.

Another very pleasant experience is the result of having been
granted a twin for a year. I am planning to retire in the summer of 1968.
It was believed that my successor should be chosen early and then be
invited to work with me for a full fiscal year as Assistant Bursar, gaining
familiarity with the business affairs of the school and developing his own
liaisons with my associates and assistants — the best way to assure smooth
continuity. Thus, on August 1, 1967, Donald F. Baumgartner joined our
staff as Assistant Bursar and is proving to be not only good company
but a helpful associate as well. Mr. Baumgartner comes to Perkins with
a wealth of useful experience accumulated in the Navy, from which he
retired with the rank of Commander. He is a graduate of the Harvard
Business School.

J. S. Hemphill, Bursar

Perkins School for the Blind 25

PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: A BRIEF HISTORY

In nineteen hundred and sixty-six all but nine of the fifty United States
of America have well-established residential schools for blind chil-
dren.1 Most of these are State operated, the three outstanding excep-
tions being The Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia, The
New York Institute for the Education of the Blind in New York and
Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, a suburb
of Boston. All these three opened their doors to blind children during
the same year, 1832.

While no one person can be said to have been the sole Founder
of Perkins, the first man known to have recognized the need for a School
for blind children in New England was Dr. John D. Fisher who, as a
medical student in Paris, had visited LTnstitution National des Jeunes
Aveugles (The National Institution for Blind Youth). This was, and
is, the parent of all schools for the blind on earth. It was founded in
1784, five years before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by Valen-
tin Hauy, the pioneer in whose footsteps walk all those who teach blind
girls and boys.

In 1826 Dr. Fisher returned to his native Boston to become a
medical practitioner. He shared his thoughts about educating blind chil-
dren with a small group of his friends who met on an icy day in Feb-
ruary 1829 at the Exchange Coffee House. He aroused their interest and
they immediately applied to the Massachusetts Legislature for a Charter.
On March 2, 1829 the New England Asylum for the Blind was incor-
porated "to educate sightless persons."

The Charter named thirty-nine prominent Bostonians as Incorpo-
rators. These are indeed historically the Founding Fathers. Among
them was John Fisher himself and the blind historian, William H. Pres-
cott. Also included was a wealthy merchant, Thomas Handasyd Per-
kins, whose name the school was soon to bear. Included also were mem-
bers of two Boston families who have provided the school with a
succession of Trustees. These were Thorndike and Lowell.

In 1830 the Corporation elected its first officers and twelve Trus-
tees, one of whom was Horace Mann. Their first task was to find a man
who would set their ideas to work.

1 States without schools are Alaska, Delaware, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wyoming. Children from these areas are ac-
cepted into schools elsewhere. Several states have more than one school.

26 13 6th Annual Report

been looking for all the time!" said Fisher. The response was immediate:
A "meeting of flint with steel," as Howe's daughter Laura described it
some years later.

Without realizing it, the Founding Fathers had made an historic de-
cision.

The Howe Regime 1831-1876

The years which began with the accidental encounter between
Fisher and Howe on Boylston Street in Boston were indeed important
ones for blind children in all the years that followed. Decisions made
then and standards then established still have their effect today not
only in Boston but in distant corners of the globe.

Lessons from Europe

The story begins with Howe visiting European schools for the
blind at the request of the Trustees. On his return he wrote an extensive
report which in many ways can still serve as a basis for educational pro-
grams for blind youth. He reported, "I visited all the principal insti-
tutions for the blind in Europe, and found in all much to admire and
to copy, but much also to avoid." He was distressed by the inadequacy
of programs as a whole. In France he found, "There are only one in
three hundred of their blind who receive an education."

With universal free education a burning issue in the United States
at that time, it is not surprising that Dr. Howe, who was to become
the close friend and collaborator of Horace Mann, should be dissatisfied
with this situation and determined to provide a program which would
be available to all blind persons who could profit from an education.

He found there was a grievous shortage of embossed books and
other equipment, much of which he felt was of poor design. He was
particularly disappointed to find that most of the boys and girls on
leaving school were ill prepared for adult life and that only a very few
of them were able to support themselves. He was delighted, however,
with the outstanding successes of a few, and recognized the great im-
portance of these successes as examples for others. On the whole he
decided that the European schools were "beacons to warn rather than
lights to guide."

Perkins School for the Blind 27

about, exactly like seeing boys; and to judge by their laughing faces,
their wild and unrestrained gestures, and their loud and hearty shouts,
they partake equally the delightful excitement of boyish play." Perhaps
as a result of this observation, thousands of Perkins boys and girls were
provided with such experiences.

He wanted to avoid anything which would restrict the normal
growth of blind children. "We should depend entirely neither upon phys-
ical or intellectual education, nor should we lay down any general rule
to be observed toward all pupils. One ought to be even more observant
of the bent of a blind boy's mind, and the direction of his talent, than
he is in the education of seeing children." This might serve as the charter
of our guidance programs today.

He also recognized that blind persons must be encouraged to be-
have as normally as possible if they were to live satisfying lives in their
own communities. "I would observe that sufficient attention is not paid
to the personal demeanor of the blind, either by their parents, or in the
public institutions, they contract disagreeable habits, whether in posture
or in movement. . . . All of this can be corrected by pursuing the same
means as used with seeing children and by accustoming them to so-
ciety."2

The First Classes

The name under which the School was chartered indicates the
attitude of Boston society to the blind at that time. While the word
ASYLUM did not have the same association with mental sickness that
it acquired later, it indicated a refuge. Howe had no intention of pro-
viding anything of the sort. He proposed to offer a well-balanced edu-
cation of academics, crafts, games and music, and when he referred to
the school he usually called it the New England Institution for the Edu-
cation of the Blind. He wanted his pupils to live lives as closely akin to
those of their seeing brothers and sisters as possible.

While in Europe Dr. Howe recognized the advantages of having
some blind teachers on his staff. He knew that it was not only the dis-
interested public and the over-concerned parents of the pupils who had
to be shown that blind children could learn and that blind adults could
support themselves. Blind children themselves needed encouragement,
and the example of competent blind instructors was invaluable. When
he returned from Europe Dr. Howe brought with him two blind men —
M. Emile Trencheri from Paris to teach academic subjects, and Mr.
John Pringle from Edinburgh to give instruction in crafts.

1 These quotations are from Annual Reports of Perkins School for the Blind.

28 136th Annual Report

In July 1832, with two little girls as pupils — Sophia Carter, eight,
and her six-year-old sister Abbey — Howe began teaching in his father's
house at 140 Pleasant Street, Boston. By August the enrollment had
increased to six, ranging in age from six to twenty years.

The Move to Pearl Street

The school soon outgrew the Howe family home. Thomas Handa-
syd Perkins, who was one of the Trustees and Vice-President, was a
wealthy Boston merchant. In April 1833 he offered his home on Pearl
Street for the use of the school, provided that during the month of May
a fund of fifty thousand dollars be raised by wealthy persons for its
support. This was done, for Boston society was already learning of Dr.
Howe's School and giving it support as it has done most generously ever
since. Support from a wider group of Bostonians came also in these very
early years and a Bazaar was held in Faneuil Hall, which was highly
successful.

Public Demonstrations

Although Dr. Howe had felt that European schools gave too much
attention to public exhibitions, he soon recognized their importance. The
School needed not only the financial support, but the understanding of
the public, if his boys and girls were ever to be employed on completing
their education. Every Saturday the School was thrown open and the
pupils read aloud from their scanty supply of embossed books; wrote
painstakingly, but in a legible script; performed arithmetical calcula-
tions; located geographical features on raised maps, and played musical
instruments. Most of the visitors were deeply impressed, but some skep-
tics believed the children could actually see, and to counter this suspi-
cion, Dr. Howe had the children wear strips of cloth over their eyes.

Demonstrations were also given in many public places, some of
which were of great importance. Interest was aroused amongst legisla-
tors in the New England States, and several schools for the blind — in-
cluding some in the Middle West — owe their origins to demonstrations
by the Perkins pupils in their State Capitols.

Early Books and Equipment

Perkins School for the Blind 29

also recognized that the cost of such books if they were made for the
school alone would be prohibitive. Consequently, he set out to raise
money by his own efforts to establish a printing department whose pub-
lications could be sold to institutions for the blind throughout the world,
or could be used in exchange for books made by other Presses, notably
those in Scotland. His pioneering nature expressed itself in the design of
a new font of type which became known as Boston Line Type. This is
still used by the Howe Press at Perkins on the title pages of its braille
books. Unfortunately, decades of controversy between proponents of
different designs of type now began, and "the war of the types," which
later involved several forms of braille, was not satisfactorily concluded
until the 1920's.

Dr. Howe also recognized the need for maps and designed many
himself. At his request, the School printer, Mr. S. P. Ruggles, designed
and manufactured a giant embossed globe which nowadays has an hon-
ored place in the entrance to the Howe Building in Watertown.

Dr. Howe never solved the problem of embossed textbooks to his
own satisfaction. He made efforts to establish a national library for the
blind without avail, though his agitation no doubt paved the way for the
founding in 1858 of The American Printing House for the Blind in
Louisville, Kentucky. The printing department which he established in
1836 was the forerunner of the Howe Memorial Press established in his
memory by his successors.

Music

The rules and regulations which the Trustees drew up when the
School opened required that "the pupils will be taught reading, writing,
arithmetic, algebra, geography, history, physiology and such other sub-
jects that are taught in the best common schools; beside vocal and in-
strumental music."

The School actually opened with a staff of five, including Dr. Howe
and a matron. We have already mentioned M. Trencheri and Mr. Prin-
gle. The third instructor was Mr. Lowell Mason, Professor of Music.
Among the earliest appeals for funds by Dr. Howe was a request for two
thousand dollars for pianofortes, organs and other instruments. Soon the
School had thirteen pianos, and it was reported that they were kept in
almost continual action from six o'clock in the morning until nine in the
evening. Vocal music was much cultivated and with great success, the
pupils giving public concerts which afforded "entire satisfaction to the
audiences." Some of the pupils were prepared to become church organ-
ists. The curriculum for the day was "in general terms, the pupils devote

30 136th Annual Report

four hours daily to intellectual labor; four hours to vocal and instrumen-
tal music; four to recreation and eating; four hours to manual labor and
eight to sleep."

It is notable that even as early as the 1837 Report Dr. Howe states
that "we would also ask for our pupils a share of public patronage in the
business of tuning pianofortes. Some of them can tune in the best style.
Pianofortes will be kept in order by the year at a reasonable rate and the
work warranted to give satisfaction to competent judges."

It should be noted also that in 1837 ten pupils had been discharged
and "we are happy to add that all of them left under circumstances cred-
itable to themselves and much benefited by the instruction they had re-
ceived. One of them — A. W. Penniman — was employed by the Trustees
of the new Institution in the State of Ohio to commence and direct their
school and he is now thus employed both respectably and profitably to
himself. Charles Morrill, one of the earliest pupils, has become such a
proficient in the science of vocal music that he readily found employ-
ment as a teacher and is now so employed in the Academy at Derry,
N. H. He has large classes of seeing children under his charge and suc-
ceeds well. His knowledge of the organ and tuning pianofortes afford
him additional means of obtaining a livelihood. Three of the others who
had attended chiefly to mechanical employments have commenced work
in their native towns and with the capacity and prospect of being able
by industry and perseverance to obtain their own livelihood."

1837 — A Memorable Year

An important event took place in 1837. Among the pupils admitted
that year was Laura Bridgman, a seven-year-old child from New Hamp-
shire. Laura, the first deaf -blind child ever to be successfully educated,
was Dr. Howe's own personal pupil.

In this year, also, Dr. Howe opened a workshop. He did this re-
luctantly for he had hoped by including crafts in the school program and
by giving a normal education to his boys and girls he could demonstrate
satisfactorily to the wealthy manufacturers and merchants of Boston
that blind men and women were desirable employees. While he never
seemed to have much trouble in persuading his rich friends to open
their pocketbooks, he found that they were extremely reluctant to add
blind persons to their payrolls.

Consequently, he decided he would have a demonstration Shop
where blind men and women could obtain specific training in usable
skills. He desired strongly to avoid patterns which he had observed in

Perkins School for the Blind 31

Europe in which the majority of the adult blind were employed perma-
nently in sheltered workshops.

However, even with this demonstration Shop, Howe was never able
to place all of his pupils in satisfactory employ, and the Workshop which
opened in 1837 was to continue until 1952, the longest span of years of
any American Workshop for the Blind to date.

"The main object of all these instrumentalities is to give to the pu-
pils a store of useful knowledge; to develop in them the aesthetic sense;
to train them up in virtuous and industrious habits; to cultivate and
strengthen their mental and bodily powers by systematic and constant
exercise; and, lastly, to make them hardy and self-reliant, so that they
may go out into the world, not to eat the bread of charity, but to earn a
livelihood by honest work."

The Move to South Boston

In 1839 the School enrollment had grown to sixty-five and the
Perkins residence on Pearl Street was no longer adequate. At this time
the large hotel, known as the Mount Washington House at South Bos-
ton, came on the market. To provide funds for the purchase of this prop-
erty, Mr. Perkins allowed his Pearl Street estate to be sold. This gen-
erous act was recognized by the Corporation changing the name of the
School to Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind.

Ten years after Dr. Howe met Dr. Fisher, he could look back on a
remarkable achievement. The School had been founded and its finances,
while strictly limited, were adequate for the moment. Certain principles
and standards had been established which had already proved beneficial
to the pupils in the School and which were to benefit many more as the
years went by.

For another thirty-four years Howe directed the School, enlarging
and improving the buildings. In 1870 he introduced, on a small scale,
the Cottage System of student living which is such an important fea-
ture of the School today. To the end of his life he emphasized always the
desirability of training blind children for adult careers in which they
would share to the fullest the lives of their families and participate in
community life. Dr. Howe died in 1876 at the age of seventy-four.

The Anagnos Years

It was appropriate that Dr. Howe's successor, Michael Anagnos,
should be a Greek. Howe had fought for the political independence of
Greek citizens before he began laboring for the social and economic in-
dependence of blind men and women in America.

32 136th Annual Report

In 1867 Howe was back in Greece distributing relief supplies to the
Cretans who were rebelling against the Turks. There he met Michael
Anagnos who followed him back to Boston where he not only became
his son-in-law, but served as his right-hand man during the last years
of his life.

The international outlook which Howe brought to the School was
maintained by Anagnos, and one of the first acts of his directorship was
to cooperate with a school for the blind in Vienna in building up a
Blindiana Library and Museum. In later years this Library was to prove
invaluable in our teacher-training programs.

Michael Anagnos had been a newspaper editor in Athens. His early
struggles for an education made him sympathetic to the desire for learn-
ing wherever he found it, and this desire was strong among many blind
boys and girls at Perkins. In his efforts to raise the standard of instruc-
tion to a higher level, he soon encountered the same shortage of em-
bossed books which had plagued Dr. Howe. In spite of all Dr. Howe's
efforts, the School printing press was small and inadequately financed.
As a tribute to his predecessor, Michael Anagnos in 1881 established
the Howe Memorial Press and appealed successfully to the public for
funds for its endowment.

First Kindergarten for the Blind

Anagnos is best remembered for the "kindergarten for the blind"
which he established in Jamaica Plain, a section of Boston, in 1887. Up
until this time pupils were not usually accepted at Perkins below the age
of eight or nine. In the new kindergarten they started as early as five.
This School unit, which included not only a kindergarten year, but the
first six grades, was generously financed by the people of Boston under
the persistent and skillful urging of the School's second Director.

Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

Probably the incident in Michael Anagnos' career which is the best
known throughout the world was his choice of Anne Sullivan, a recent
graduate from Perkins, to go down to Alabama to work with the infant
Helen Keller. Using only the reports which Dr. Howe had compiled of
his work with Laura Bridgman, Anne Sullivan proved equal to the task
of teaching language to Helen Keller. The two of them spent the years
1889 to 1893 at Perkins as the guests of Michael Anagnos whose en-
couragement was a major factor in the success of these two remarkable
women.

Perkins School for the Blind 33

Faculty Growth

Perhaps the real measure of Michael Anagnos' directorship was the
spectacular increase in the number of teachers. When he became direc-
tor in 1876 there were eleven teachers for 147 pupils, or one teacher to
each 13 children. Moreover, no fewer than five of these 11 were music
teachers. For academic instruction there was one teacher for every 29
pupils.

At the time of his death, which took place in Romania in 1906 in
his seventieth year, there were two separate schools, the Lower School
in Jamaica Plain, and the Upper School in South Boston. In the former,
18 teachers (five of them for music) taught 118 children, a ratio of
one to six and a half. Teachers of academic subjects were one to nine.

In the Upper School in South Boston 46 teachers taught 171 pupils,
a ratio of one to four. In academic subjects the ratio was one to nine,
the same as in Jamaica Plain. This unique high ratio of teacher to pupils
has been a characteristic feature of Perkins ever since. In 1966 there
were 100 teachers for 300 pupils.

Edward E. Allen, Educator

Dr. Howe was a physician, and Michael Anagnos, while a scholar,
was primarily an editor. The School's third Director, who succeeded
Michael Anagnos on his death in 1907, was an educator. After graduat-
ing from Harvard he had taught for several years in the Royal Normal
School for the Blind in London — a school whose first Director was
Francis Campbell, a former music teacher at Perkins. From London
Dr. Allen returned to Boston where he taught at Perkins for several
years. He was then appointed superintendent of the School for Blind in
Philadelphia where he remained for sixteen years.

In 1906 he was called back to Boston on the death of Michael
Anagnos, and almost immediately began a campaign to move the School
from South Boston to some site where there would be space for greater
physical activity. Quoting the philosophy of Francis Campbell, whom
he greatly admired, he made a plea for facilities where the blind boys
and girls could be brought up in a much more active manner than was
possible within the narrow confines at South Boston. In 1910 he had
found the spot he was looking for on the Stickney estate in Watertown,
and during the next three years both the School in South Boston and
the Kindergarten in Jamaica Plain were moved to the present site.

Dr. Edward E. Allen is responsible for many firsts in the education
of the blind. His strong interest in physical activity for youth led him to

34 13 6th Annual Re port

appoint the first trained physiotherapist in any school for the blind in
1908.

The Watertown plant carried to fruition the Cottage Family plan
inaugurated by Dr. Howe, but Dr. Allen immediately recognized that
for the plan to succeed as he hoped, it was necessary that a much closer
contact between the Perkins Cottage Family and the pupils' own fami-
lies was desirable. In 1916 he appointed a Home Visitor, the first ever
to serve a school for the blind on a full-time basis. A year or two later,
together with the Overbrook School for the Blind, Dr. Allen engaged the
services of Dr. Samuel P. Hayes, Head of the Psychology Department at
Mt. Holyoke College, to prepare the first psychological tests for blind
children. These tests — known as the Hayes-Binet Tests — successfully
demonstrated for the first time that the population of blind people does
not differ in intelligence from the population of the seeing. That is, there
is approximately the same percentage of superior, normal and inferior
blind as you find among seeing boys and girls.

In 1920 Dr. Allen took the first steps towards placing the education
of blind children on a professional level comparable to the best public
and private schools in the country. In this year, the first graduate-level
teacher-training program for teachers of the blind was established at
Perkins in cooperation with Harvard University. In 1924 Dr. Allen ap-
pointed the first Speech Therapist as a full-time employee in a school
for the blind.

By the end of the first century of the school's history when Dr. Al-
len retired, the shape of Perkins as we know it today, its ideals and its
standards were firmly established.

The three Directors who headed the School throughout this cen-
tury were all mindful of the fact that the population of blind people is
a relatively small one. The blind would always be a minority group, and
consequently, if blind men and women were to take their place among
the seeing majority, they must make a greater effort to exceed in what-
ever they set out to accomplish.

In a larger sense, however, it was not so much the efforts of these
three men that made the School what it is today, but the fact that
throughout ten decades the challenges which these directors and their
staffs hurled at their pupils were picked up and eagerly accepted, and in
many cases surpassed. All that the Perkins faculty could do was to offer
opportunities to their boys and girls. It was the good use to which these
young people put these opportunities that made Perkins a great success.
The history of the School was written rather in the efforts of Sophie
Carter, the first blind child to come to Perkins, and her many succes-

Perkins School for the Blind 35

sors: such as Laura Bridgman, A. W. Penniman, Stephen Blaisdell,
Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller.

Second Century

On the retirement of Dr. Edward E. Allen and the appointment of
Dr. Gabriel Farrell to succeed him, the School started on its second cen-
tury. Dr. Farrell who was an Episcopalian minister of varied experience
brought to the School a vigor and organizing ability that led to immedi-
ate improvements.

One of his first tasks was to organize the work for the Deaf-Blind
into a special department under the leadership of Miss Inez B. Hall, a
pioneer in the use of the vibration technique of teaching deaf-blind chil-
dren to speak.

In Dr. Farrell's early years also many improvements in the business
of the institution took place, and a notable event was the creation of the
Office of Bursar to handle business affairs. In these years, too, the School
which had virtually been three schools, Lower School, Boys' Upper
School and Girls' Upper School, were combined into a single unit with
the educational program under the control of a single Principal.

The Perkins "Lantern"

Dr. Farrell was an experienced journalist and it was natural that as
a result he should inaugurate a magazine to acquaint friends of Perkins
with the affairs of the School. This magazine, The Lantern, which
is issued quarterly in print and braille form, was established in 1931.
It has done much to acquaint workers in this field with the School's en-
deavors and to bring it many friends among the general public. It also
serves to keep former students more closely in touch with their School.

The years of World War II were difficult ones for the School and a
number of the older boys left earlier than they would have otherwise
to obtain employment. However, the changing situation in the labor
market since World War II has brought about many new opportunities
for employment among the blind. The goal which Dr. Howe sought of
finding unsheltered employment for all the boys and girls of the School
finally became a reality in the closing years of Dr. Farrell's director-
ship which ended in 1951.

The Fifth Director

As a result of this changing economic situation, one of the first acts
of the fifth Director, Dr. Edward J. Waterhouse, who succeeded Dr.

36 136th Annual Report

Farrell in 1951, was the closing of the Workshop which Dr. Howe es-
tablished in 1837. This Workshop was partly rendered superfluous by
the establishment in recent years of State Workshops. For over a decade
no Perkins pupil had sought employment in the Perkins Shop. It was
only a matter of time before the plant would close down of its own vo-
lition. It seemed wiser to bring about a more orderly demise, and the
Workshop was officially closed in June 1952.

While the last decade is too close to the present for evaluation, cer-
tain events may be recorded. The work of Dr. Hayes, encouraged by
both Dr. Allen and Dr. Farrell, led in turn to the establishment of a
guidance department employing several clinical psychologists. Dr. Allen
had added a psychometrist to the staff, a practice which Dr. Farrell had
continued. In the 1950s Guidance Counseling became an important
part of the School program.

The Retrolental-fibroplasia Wave

The first child to be admitted to Perkins whose blindness was
caused by retrolental fibroplasia was enrolled in 1946. This disease
which resulted from excessive exposure of prematurely born infants to
oxygen was soon to add thousands of girls and boys to schools and
classes for the blind in the 1950s. Fortunately this disease was rapidly
brought under control and it is a rare event for a child to lose his sight
for this reason nowadays. At Perkins, where the enrollment had been
steadily declining, an immediate increase was experienced. Between
1946 and 1951, while the Upper School population decreased by 28 the
Lower School increased by 32. Soon the total school population, which
had declined to 234 in 1943, was in excess of 300.

This increase would have been far greater had it not been for the
rapid increase at this time of classes for blind children in the public
schools throughout the United States. This was largely the result of the
retrolental-fibroplasia wave and the desire of parents to keep their chil-
dren at home. In a few years more than half the blind children in Amer-
ica were being educated in this way. Had it not been for this program,
in New England, Perkins would have been forced to increase its ca-
pacity considerably.

The Deaf-Blind Department

Perkins School for the Blind 37

tional shortage of trained teachers of the deaf — the source upon which
Perkins has mainly drawn for its teachers for its deaf-blind children. It
became necessary for Perkins to establish its own program for training
teachers of the deaf-blind which was worked out in cooperation with
Boston University in 1955. A program of research was also established
in the Deaf -Blind Department at this time. The Department grew from
five pupils in 1953 to forty pupils in 1964, making it by far the largest
in the world. It included over one-third of all deaf-blind pupils in special
programs in the United States.

Education of the Public

Ever since Dr. Howe's days, it has been recognized at Perkins that
one of the important responsibilities of a school for the blind is to edu-
cate the public wherever possible concerning the abilities of blind per-
sons. The demonstrations which Dr. Howe inaugurated are still carried
out, though nowadays they are held annually instead of weekly. Modern
methods of mass education are now used, and during recent years, two
professional motion picture films — one entitled The Perkins Story and
the other dealing with the Deaf-Blind Department and entitled Children
of the Silent Night, have been produced for the School. Over a hundred
copies of these two films are in constant use throughout the world and
have had a remarkable effect upon the School's program. The incoming
mail shows a great increase in interest in what the School is doing and an
increased request for assistance in all forms, sometimes coming from
distant parts of the world.

Overseas Interests

Probably the first example of the influence of Perkins and its ideas
overseas was the choice by Dr. Armitage in London of Francis Camp-
bell from the Perkins staff to head the Royal Normal School for the
Blind. Here the debt which Dr. Howe acknowledged from the lessons
he learned from visiting schools in Europe was in some measure repaid.

As has been mentioned, Michael Anagnos worked out a coopera-
tive arrangement with schools in Europe for the exchange of equipment
and literature. However, it was with the establishment of a teacher-
training program at Harvard in the 1920s that opportunities for serving
blind children overseas really began. Ever since this course started ap-
plications have been received from candidates from other countries and
by 1960 there were graduates of the two teacher-training programs
teaching blind children in between forty and forty-five foreign lands.

136th Annual Report

Partly as a result of this Perkins has enrolled a number of blind pu-
pils from overseas. Perkins graduates are found today in many lands,
some of them engaged in the education of the blind and others leading
successful lives in various fields.

Unchanging Pupils

Were Dr. Howe to return to the School he would find that many
of his dreams had been fulfilled. He would wholeheartedly endorse the
spirit of determination of the blind and deaf-blind boys and girls of to-
day to overcome their handicap of blindness in the same way that they
did in the School's early years. He would be particularly gratified to find
that virtually all pupils leaving the School have become economically
and socially independent.

Perkins School for the Blind

OFFICERS 1830-1967

1830-1837, Jonathan Phillips
1838-1839, Samuel Appleton
1840-1846, Peter C. Brooks
1847-1854, Richard Fletcher
1855-1861, Edward Brooks
1861-1869, Samuel May
1870-1871, Martin Brimmer

PRESIDENTS

1872-
1898-
1930-
1946-
1953-
1954-

1897, Samuel Eliot

1930, Francis H. Appleton

1946, Robert H. Hallowell

1953, Reginald Fitz, M.D.

1954, Warren Motley
Augustus Thorndike,

M.D.

VICE-PRESIDENTS

1830-1834, William Calhoun
1835-1846, Thomas H. Perkins
1847-1850, Edward Brooks
1851-1852, John D. Fisher
1852-1866, Stephen Fairbanks
1867-1870, Joseph Lyman
1871-1892, John Cummings
1893-1896, George Hale

1897-1911, Amory A. Lawrence
1912-1913, N. P. Hallowell
1 9 1 4- 1 92 1 , George H. Richards
1922-1929, William L. Richardson
1930-1946, G. Peabody Gardiner
1946-1956, Ralph Lowell
1956- Samuel Cabot, Jr.

TREASURERS

1830-1839, Richard Tucker
1840-1846, Peter R. Dalton
1847-1861, Thomas B. Wales
1862-1868, William Claflin
1869-1872, William Endicott
1873-1879, Henry Endicott
1880-1881, Patrick T. Jackson

1881-1902, Edward Jackson
1903-1904, Patrick T. Jackson
1904-1916, William Endicott
1917-1935, Albert Thorndike
1935-1945, Roger Amory
1945-1950, John P. Chase
1950- Ralph B. Williams

SECRETARIES AND DIRECTORS

1831-1876, Samuel Gridley Howe
1876-1906, Michael Anagnos
1907-1931, Edward E. Allen

1931-1951, Gabriel Farrell
1951- Edward J. Waterhouse

DIRECTORS EMERITI

1931-1950, Edward E. Allen 1952- Gabriel Farrell

136th Annual Report

TRUSTEES 1830-1967

Achin, Roland M.

1960-

Fay, Rosamond

1918-1920,

Adams, Melvin O.

1901-1903

1921-1922

Allen, Dr. Henry F.

1965-

Faxon, Henry H.

1932-1942

Ames, Frederick

1886-1888

Fisher, John D.

1833-1850

Amory, Robert

1920-1921

Fitz, Reginald (Dr.)

1943-1953

Amory, Roger

1934-35,

Fitzpatrick, Paul E.

1921-1940

1945-46

Fitzpatrick, Thomas B.

1912-1918

Andrew, John A.

1859-1860

Flanigan, Rt. Rev. Charles R.

Angier, Mrs. George

1913-1921

1958-1962

Apthorp, Robert E.

1866-1882

Frothingham, Rev. Paul

Appleton, Francis H.

1902-1929

Revere

1903-1926

Armstrong, Samuel T.

1833-34

Arnold, Mrs. David B. Jr.

1965-

Gage, Mrs. Homer

1933-1948

Gardiner, Charles

1895-1908

Baker, Joseph

1837

Gardiner, Robert H.

1899-1901

Baylies, Walter Cabot

1906-1919

Gardner, G. Peabody Jr.

1922-1945

Bellows, A. J.

1855

Gleason, Miss Ellen H.

1939-1945

Benedict, Wm. Leonard

1902-1908

Glover, Joseph B.

1875-1902

Book, Miss Dorothy L.

1949-1953

Glover, Joseph H.

1873-1875

Bouve, Thomas T.

1851-54,

Goodwin, Ozias

1836-1846

1861-71

Gray, Thomas G.

1842-1845

Brooks, Edward

1833-1846

Brooks, Edward

1891-1898

Hale, George S.

1865-1875

Brooks, Francis

1866-79,

Hallowell, N. P.

1898-1914

1883-91

Hallowell, Robert H.

1914-1930,

Bryant, John W.

1953-

1940-1956

Buckingham, J. T.

1851-1852

Honorary Trustee 1956-

Hallowell, Robert H. Jr.

1956-

Campbell, Mrs. Frederick W.

Heard, J. Theodore

1875-1906

1948-49

Higginson, Henry Lee

1872-1883

*Cabot, Samuel Jr.

1952-1956,

Hill, Hamilton A.

1871-1873

1961-1965

Holmes, Henry W. LL.D.

1941-1952

Gary, T. G.

1834-1859

Homans, John

1833-1847

Chandler, Theophilus

1848-1865

Hornblower, Henry

1929-1933

Chase, John P.

1940-1945

Howe, Henry Marion

1893-1902

Cheever, David

1946-

Howe, Solomon H.

1872-1875

Connolly, Rev. John J.

1945-1956

Hunnewell, Francis W.

1898-1903

Cornell, William M.

1856-57

Cutler, Pliny

1833-1835

Jackson, Edward

1903-1906

Jackson, William M.

1855-1856

Daley, Mrs. Francis J.

1935-1939

Jarvis, Edward

1853-1854

Danielson, Mrs. Richard E.

1934-1961

Johnson, Rev. Herbert S.

1906-1907

Denny, George P. (Dr.)

1942-43

Dixwell, J. J.

1847-1851

Kolligian, Jack H.

1964-

Dowd, Mrs. John F.

1937-1939

Krock, Aaron

1964-1965

Druker, Bertram

1962-1964

Drury, Theodore F.

1943-1945

Lawrence, Abbott

1833

Dwight, John S.

1875-1893

Lawrence, Amory A.
Leviseur, Mrs. Frederick J.

1911-1912

Eliot, Samuel A.

1840-41,

(Nee RosannaThorndike)

1855-56

, 1865-72

1933-1941

Emerson, George B.

1851-1860

1948-

Emery, Isaac

1852-1853

Livermore, Thomas L.

1896-1898

Emmons, Nathaniel H.

1852-1853

Loring, Benjamin

1849-1852

Endicott, William

1888-1911

Loud, Samuel P.

1833-1850

Engelhardt, M.

1883-84

Lowell, Augustus

1867-1869,

Endicott, William

1917-1934

1870-1874

Lowell, James Arnold

1908-1926

Fairbanks, Stephen

1842-1866

Lowell, John A.

1835-1836

Fay, Thomas J.

1918-1922

Lowell, John

1956-

Perkins School for the Blind

Lowell, Ralph 1926-1946

Lyman, Joseph 1853-1870

Lyne, Daniel J. 1937-1951

Maliotis, Charles 1945-1947

Mann, Horace 1833-1851

Mason, William P. 1833-1835

May, Samuel 1834-1861

McGrath, Michael F. 1951-1953

Means, James H. 1879-1883

Mills, James K. 1838-1848

* Motley, Warren 1933-

Mudge, E. R. 1866-1871

Neal, Paul L. 1949-1953

O'Connor, George P. (Rev.)

Osgood, Charles E.

Paine, Robert
Palmer, Julius
Parkman, Mrs. Henry Jr.
Peabody, Andrew P.

Perkins, Edward N.

Perkins, William
Phillips, John C.
Phillips, Stephen C.
Prescott, William H.
Purdon, Miss Maria
Putnam, Mrs. George T.
Putnam, Mrs. James J.

1925-1943
1922-1925

1881-
1860-
1945-
1875-
1886-
1866-
1869-
1856-
1882-
1833-
1833-
1921-
1923-
1908-

1883

1861

1948

1881,

1893

1868,

1899

1861

1885

1834

1839

1932

1934

1913

Quincy, Josiah Jr. 1861-1880

Quincy, Samuel M. 1881-1887

Rantoul, Robert 1833-1851

Richards, George H. 1896-1922

Richardson, William L. 1888-1932

Rogers, Miss Annette P. 1907-1918

Rogers, Mrs. Robert E. 1935-1937

Rogers, William B.
Rotch, Benjamin S.
Russell, George R.

Russell, Henry S.
Saltonstall, Leverett

Saltonstall, Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, Richard M.
Shaw, G. Howard
Shelnutt, Clarence B.
Sherrill, Henry R. (Rev.)
Silverman, Isadore J.

Sleeper, Jacob
Sloane, Marshall M.
Smiley, Mrs. Gilbert

Snelling, Samuel G.
Swartz, George

Stephenson, John H.

Stone, Henry
Sturgis, James
Sumner, Charles

Temple, Thomas F.
Thaxter, Joseph B.
Thompson, Camerson S.
*Thorndike, Albert
*Thorndike, Augustus, M.D.

Thorndike, S. Lothrop
Ticknor, W. D.

Wales, George W.
Weinberg, Mrs. Carol
Wetherbee, John H.
Winthrop, Robert
Wright, Miss Lucy

Zeilinski, John

1862-1866
1858-1875
1847-1860,
1862-1866
1885-1889

1884-
1889-
1922-
1946-
1899-
1854-
1965-
1926-
1953-
1957-
1855
1960-
1953-
1957-
1869-
1953-
1957
1863-
1865
1893-
1857-
1846-

1886,
1895
1939

1922
1855
1966
1933
1956,
1960

1965

1956,

1960

1886

1956,

1962

64,

1896

1888

1853

1886-1899
1856-1866
1947-1949
1911-1917

1953-1954
1887-1911
1854-1864

1875-1896
1962-1964
1883-1886
1836-1841
1931-1935

1936-1937

See Officers 1830-1967.

136th Annual Report

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION
1967-68

PRESIDENT

Augustus Thorndke, M.D.

VICE-PRESIDENT

Samuel Cabot, Jr.

TREASURER

Ralph B. Williams

SECRETARY

Edward J. Waterhouse

ASSISTANT TREASURER

John W. Bryant

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Dr. Henry F. Allen*
Mrs. David B. Arnold, Jr.
Roland M. Achin*
John W. Bryant
David Cheever
Robert H. Hallowell, Jr.

Jack H. Kollioian*
Mrs. Frederick J. Leviseur
John Lowell
Warren Motley
Richard Saltonstall
Rev. W. Chester Jostrom*

STANDING COMMITTEES

Executive

Augustus Thorndike, M.D.

Ex-officio
Ralph B. Williams

Ex-officio
Edward J. Waterhouse

Ex-officio
John W. Bryant
Samuel Cabot, Jr.
Mrs. Frederick J. Leviseur
Warren Motley

Finance

Ralph B. Williams

Ex-officio
Samuel Cabot, Jr.
John Lowell
Richard Saltonstall

Visiting

The Officers and Trustees

* Appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth.

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MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION

1967

Achin, Roland M., Lowell
Achin, Mrs. Roland M., Lowell
Allen, Mrs. Frank G., Boston
Allen, Dr. Henry Freeman, Boston
Allen, Mrs. Henry Freeman, Boston
Allen, Mrs. Philip R., Walpole
Amory, Robert, Jr., Washington, D. C.
Andrews, Dr. Francis M., Baltimore, Md.
Andrews, Mrs. Francis M., Baltimore, Md.
Angney, D. Harry, Wellesley Hills
Appleton, Mrs. Francis Henry, Brookline
Arnold, David B., Jr., Concord
Arnold, Mrs. David B., Jr., Concord

Babson, Donald P., Wellesley
Balboni, Dr. Victor G., Boston
Ballantine, Arthur A., New York
Barnard, John, Jr., Scituate
Barnett, Dr. M. Robert, New York
Beatley, Prof. Ralph, Cambridge
Belash, Mrs. Constantine A., Boston
Bird, Miss Anna C, East Walpole
Bird, Mrs. Francis W., East Walpole
Brooks, Lawrence G., West Medford
Brooks, Mrs. L. G., West Medford
Brown, Mrs. C. R., New Haven, Conn.
Bryant, John W., Beverly Farms
Bryant, Mrs. John W., Beverly Farms
Burns, Warren, New York
Burr, I. Tucker, Walpole, N. H.
Byers, Dr. Randolph K., Milton
Byers, Mrs. Randolph K., Milton

Cabot, Samuel, Jr., Beverly Farms
Cabot, Mrs. Samuel, Jr., Beverly Farms
Cambadhis, Dr. A. P., Manchester, N. H.
Campbell, Mrs. Douglass, New York
Campbell, Mrs. Frederick W.,

Peterborough, N. H.
Carroll, Dr. John J., Canton
Carroll, Rev. Thomas J., Newton
Case, Dr. Harold C, Boston
Case, Hon. Norman S„ Wakefield, R. I.
Case, Mrs. Norman S., Wakefield, R. I.
Cassels, Miss Andree, Beverly Farms
Chapman, Rev. Frederick, Watertown
Chappel, Nelson, New York
Chase, John P., Boston
Cheever, David, Dedham
Cheever, Mrs. David, Dedham
Choate, Mrs. Joseph H., 3rd, Groton
Clarke, Rev. E. Palmer, Watertown

Cochran, Mrs. Olin J., Windham, N. H.
Comstock, Mrs. Daniel F., South Lincoln
Connor, Dr. Gordon B., Washington, D. C.
Coolidge, William A., Topsfield
Coon, Nelson, Vineyard Haven
Coon, Mrs. Nelson, Vineyard Haven
Costello, John W., Boston
Cotting, Charles E, Boston
Cunningham, Edward, Dover
Curtis, Louis, Boston
Cushing, Mrs. Henry K., Brookline
Cushman, Gardner, Belmont

Danielson, Mrs. Richard E., Boston
Dexter, Miss Harriet, Beverly
Donovan, Rev. Charles F.,

Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Dowd, Mrs. John F., Roxbury
Dreyer, Mrs. Frank A., Woods Hole
Druker, Bertram A., Chestnut Hill
Dunnell, Mrs. William W., Jr., Wayland
Dunphy, Dr. Edwin B., Cambridge
Dutton, Mrs. George D., Walpole

Elliott, Dr. Mark D., Concord
Emmons, Mrs. Robert W., Boston
Endicott, William, 2nd, North Andover

Farrell, Gabriel, Cambridge
Farrell, Mrs. Gabriel, Cambridge
Farrell, Dr. Malcolm J., Waverley
Faxon, Dr. Henry H., Brookline
Faxon, Mrs. Robert M., Milton
Fenn, T. Legare, Buzzards Bay
Ferree, Dr. John W., New York
Fitz, Mrs. Reginald, Providence, R. I.
Forbes, David C, Sherborn
Forbes, Mrs. David C, Sherborn

Gardiner, John H., Danvers

Gardner, G. Peabody, Brookline

Gayzagian, Albert, Watertown

Gaylord, Emerson G., South Hadley Center

Gilbert, Carl J., Dover

Gleason, Miss Ellen H., Jamaica Plain

Goodhue, Mrs. Nathaniel, Medfield

Grandin, Mrs. Isabella, Boston

Gray, Francis C, Boston

Gundersen, Dr. Trygve, Brookline

Gundersen, Mrs. Trygve, Brookline

Hallowell, Richard P., 2nd, Boston
Hallowell, Robert H., Jr., Dover

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Hallowell, Mrs. Robert H., Jr., Dover
Harris, Rev. John U., Still River
Harris, Nathan P., Boston
Hemphill, J. Stephenson, Marstons Mills
Hemphill, Mrs. J. Stephenson,

Marstons Mills
Higginson, Francis L., Boston
Hinds, Mrs. E. Sturgis, Manchester
Hirshberg, Al, Brookline
Hoffman, Rev. Robert W., Des Moines, la.
Houlihan, Rt. Rev. Msgr. M. J., Watertown
Hubbard, Mrs. Charles W., 3rd, Brookline

Ierardi, Francis B., Somerville
Innes, Mrs. Charles J., Boston

Jackson, Charles, Jr., Boston

Jackson, Mrs. James, Westwood

Jackson, Norman P., Revere

Jackson, Mrs. Norman P., Revere

Jeffries. J. Amory, Boston

Johns, Frank, Jr., Hartford, Conn.

Johns, Mrs. Frank, Jr., Hartford, Conn.

Johnson, Edward C., Milton

Jones, John Williams, St. Charles, 111.

Jones, William R., Holmdel, N. J.

Jostrom, Rev. W. Chester, Pembroke

Kelly, Francis A., Watertown

Kenyon, Miss Eunice L., Wellesley

Keppel, Francis, New York

Kidder, Mrs. Alfred, 2nd, Philadelphia, Pa.

Kidder, George H., Lincoln

Kiernan, Owen B., Boston

King, Mrs. James G., New York

Klein, Ernest B., Boston

Knight, Andrew H., Birmingham, Ala.

Kolligian, Jack H., Winchester

Krock, Aaron, Worcester

Kuehn, Mrs. George W., Chestnut Hill

Lamb, Miss Aimee, Milton
Lamb, Miss Rosamond, Milton
Lawrence, Rt. Rev. Frederic C, Brookline
Lawrence, James, Jr., Brookline
Lawrence, John E., So. Hamilton
Lawrence, John S., Manchester
Lawrence, Rt. Rev. W. A., Cambridge
Leonard, Louis, Boston
Leviseur, Frederick J., Boston
Leviseur, Mrs. Frederick J., Boston
Lowell, John, Nahant
Lowell, Mrs. John, Nahant
Lowell, Ralph, Westwood
Lowell, Mrs. Ralph, Westwood
Lyman, Mrs. Arthur T., Westwood
Lyman, Miss Lydia A., Boston

MacPhie, Mrs. Elmore I., West Newton

Maliotis, Charles, Boston

Mason, Charles E., Jr., Newton Centre

McCarty, Rev. Chandler H., Keene, N. H.

McGrath, Michael F., Salem

McGreal, Mrs. Wm., Peterborough, N. H.

Merriman, Mrs. E. B., Providence, R. I.
Merriman, Mrs. Roger B., Cambridge
Middleton, W. Irving, Belmont
Miles, Mrs. Sherman, Beverly
Minot, James J., Boston
Mitton, Mrs. Arthur G., Jr., Chestnut Hill
Mitton, Mrs. Edward J., Chestnut Hill
Monks, Rev. G. Gardner, Cohasset
Montagu, Mrs. H. B., England
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Boston
Morss, Sherman, Beverly Farms
Morss, Mrs. Sherman, Beverly Farms
Motley, Edward, Concord
Motley, Warren, Boston
Mungovan, John F., Milton
Mungovan, Mrs. John F., Milton
Mussells, Dr. F. Lloyd, Canada
Mussells, Mrs. F. Lloyd, Canada
Mutch, Miss Margaret, Boston
Myers, Mrs. John W., Brookline

Neal, Paul L., Waltham
Norman, Mrs. John A., New York

Parker, William A., Boston

Parkman, Mrs. Henry, Boston

Peabody, Miss Margery, Groton

Perkins, Rev. Palfrey, Boston

Perley, Mrs. Jesse (Pratt), So. Freeport, Me.

Pew, George L., Falmouth Foreside, Me.

Plimpton, Mrs. George F., Boston

Potter, Miss Claudia, Waltham

Powers, Hon. William E., Providence, R. I.

Pratt, George D., Springfield

Preston, Mrs. Elwyn G., Jr., Chestnut Hill

Putnam, Mrs. Eliot T., Dedham

Putnam, Mrs. George T„ Dedham

Rackemann, Miss Elizabeth, Boston
Raiche, George A., Boston
Rice, Henry F., Bedford
Richards, Hamilton, Westwood
Richards, Henry H., Groton
Richards, John, Gardiner, Me.
Richards, Tudor, Dublin, N. H.
Richardson, John, Milton
Richardson, Mrs. John, Milton
Robinson, Dwight P., Jr., Brookline
Ruelberg, Mrs. Reinhold, Chatham

Salmon, Peter J., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Saltonstall, Hon. Leverett, Dover
Saltonstall, Mrs. Leverett, Dover
Saltonstall, Richard, Sherborn
Saltonstall, Mrs. Richard, Sherborn
Sanders, Stewart, Cohasset
Sanders, Mrs. Stewart, Cohasset
Scott, Sumner W. D., Wilmette, 111.
Shattuck, Henry L., Boston
Shaw, Mrs. Carleton A., Concord
Shaw, Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Beverly Farms
Shelnutt, Clarence B., Troy, N. Y.
Shelnutt, Mrs. Clarence B., Troy, N. Y.
Sherk, Rev. Warren A., Tempe, Ariz.

Perkins School for the Blind

Sherrill, Rt. Rev. H. K., Boxford
Sillen, Rev. Walter, Methuen
Silverman, Isadore J., Boston
Silverman, Mrs. Isadore J., Boston
Simonds, Miss Elsie H., Sudbury
Sloane, Marshall M., Newton
Sloane, Mrs. Marshall M., Newton
Smiley, Mrs. Gilbert, Wellesley
Smith, Dr. Dwight C, New York
Smithdas, Robert J., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Snow, Mrs. William G., Newton Centre
Stafford, Rev. Russell H., Columbia, Conn.
Storrow, Miss Mary G., Mattapoisett
Swartz, George, Brookline
Swartz, Mrs. George, Brookline

Theopold, Philip H., Boston
Thomas, Mrs. John B., Boston
Thompson, Cameron S., Boston
Thorndike, Dr. Augustus, Chestnut Hill
Thorndike, Benjamin A. G., Dedham
Todd, Francis B., New York

Tufts, John S., Watertown

Tynan, Maurice I., Deerfield Beach, Fla.

Walsh, Fred V., South Boston
Waterhouse, Rev. Edson G., Townsend
Waterhouse, Edward J., Watertown
Waterhouse, Mrs. Edward J., Watertown
Weinberg, Mrs. Carol, Chestnut Hill
Wendell, Wm. G., West Hartford, Conn.
Werntz, George, Morristown, N. J.
Whitmore, Howard, Jr., Newton
Wiggins, Mrs. C, Gardiner, Me.
Wiggins, John, Westport, Conn.
Wiggins, Mrs. John, Westport, Conn.
Wild, Rev. John H., Watertown
Willett, Mrs. Seymour B., Chestnut Hill
Williams, Ralph B., Jr., Chestnut Hill
Williams, Mrs. Ralph B., Jr., Chestnut Hill

Yeo, Dr. Wendell, Newton

Zeilinski, John, Holyoke

136th Annual Report

ADMINISTRATION AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

1967-1968

Edward J. Waterhouse, M.A., Cantab., D.Litt., Director
Benjamin F. Smith, A.B., M.A., Assistant Director

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE

Jeannette E. Stillisano

Secretary to the Director
Mrs. Theresa Flaherty

Stenographer
Mrs. Joan B. Smith

Registrar
Mrs. Mae Ellis

Registrar

Elizabeth Merrigan

Secretary to the Assistant Director
Mrs. S. R. Hemphill

Secretary, Deaf-Blind Fund
Mrs. Madeliene B. Webber

Receptionist
Robert M. Campbell, A.B.

M.C.S., Public Education

HEALTH

Victor G. Balboni, M.D.

Attending Physician
Mildred P. O'Keefe, R.N.

Resident Nurse
Mrs. Rosamond Macdonald, R.N.

Assistant Resident Nurse
H. M. Wolman, A.B., M.D.

Psychiatrist

Mark D. Elliott, D.D.S.

Orthodontist
Nicholas Albanese, D.D.S.

Dentist
Trygve Gundersen, M.D.

Ophthalmologist
Mrs. Bernice H. Lowen, B.S.

Physical Therapist

LIBRARY

Mrs. Billie Jean Ouellette, B.S., B.A., M.L.S., Librarian

Harriet M. Phillips, B.S.
Mrs. Shirley E. Welch, B.A.,

M.L.S.

School Librarians
Kenneth A. Stuckey

Assistant Librarian
Paul Gifford, Shipping Clerk
Joseph Collins, Page

Mrs. Elizabeth Barger
Mrs. Jean DiLorenzo
Mrs. Maureen J. Flanagan
Mrs. Kathleen McLaughlin
Mrs. Emily Michelson
Mrs. Elizabeth Perry
Sophie M. Wall
Clerks

Thaddeus R. Mogilnicki, B.S.,
M.Ed.

John L. Morse, A.B., M.Ed.

Esmilta H. Oro, B.A., MA.

PSYCHOLOGY AND GUIDANCE

Carl J. Davis, A.B., Ed.M., Head

Mrs. Eleanor Schnekjer, A.B.,
Ed.M.
Counselors
Mrs. Carmen Buckley, B.A.
Psychometrist
Mrs. Helen Seale
Secretary

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SOCIAL SERVICE

Mary Whitelaw, B.S., M.S., A.C.S.W., Head

Mrs. Martha Weinstein

Secretary

TEACHER TRAINING

William T. Heisler, B.S., M.S., Head, Department of Teacher-Training
Mrs. Carolyn Hodgen, Secretary

BUSINESS AND OPERATING SERVICES

J. Stephenson Hemphill, B.S., M.B.A., Bursar

Donald F. Baumgartner, B.A., M.B.A., Assistant Bursar

Verna L. Anderson, Assistant to the Bursar

BUSINESS OFFICE BOOKKEEPING OFFICE

Mrs. Helen B. Lee Forace L. Booker

Secretary to the Bursar Accountant

Elizabeth O'Brien Mrs. Marie E. Menez

Secretary Head Bookkeeper

Mrs. Anne McKenna
MAIL & DUPLICATING SERVICE Edith L. Volpe
Mrs. Lois I. Downing Assistant Bookkeepers

Mrs. Florence M. Dunham Mrs. Ann Brennan

Mrs. Mary Duval
TELEPHONE SERVICE Bookkeeper-Clerks

"Swr&ZXopenUor PERSONNEL OFFICE

Mrs. Elizabeth H. Bolton Margaret E. McCloskey
Mrs. Marie E. Farrar Personnel Officer

Mrs. Mary Shepard Kathleen Curran
Asst. Telephone Operators Secretary

MAINTENANCE AND UTILITY SERVICE

Claude E. MacIntyre, Superintendent
Mrs. Olga K. Swanson, Secretary

FOOD AND HOUSEHOLD SUPPLY SERVICE

Mrs. Kathleen A. Speakman, Dietitian
Florence Capobianco, Secretary

LAUNDRY SERVICES

Leo Harrington, Laundry man-Manager

136th Annual Report

HOWE MEMORIAL PRESS

Harry J. Friedman, Manager
Bertha Kasetta, Braille Editor

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

A. Claude Ellis, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., Principal
Cynthia F. Essex, B.A. Mrs. Doris Shackleton

Lower School Supervisor

Secretary to the Principal

TEACHERS

Anthony J. Ackerman, B.A.

English
Lynn Albright, B.A.

Science, Visual Aid
Mrs. Barbara Baker, A.B., M.Ed.

Fifth Grade
Margaret A. Ballou, B.M.

Slow-Learners
Mrs. Billie Louise Bentzen, B.A.

Social Studies
Charlotte Blackwell, A.B.

French
Majorie Blum, B.S., M.Ed.

Pre-Primary
Margaret Brearley, B.A.

Arithmetic
Mrs. Dolores Britten, B.S., MA.

Spanish
Mollie Cambridge, A.B.

Mathematics, Latin
Priscilla A. Chapin, B.S.

Slow-Learners
Catherine Cowen

Kindergarten
Mrs. Sheila Daily, B.S.

Home Economics
MaryAnn DeLuca, B.S., M.Ed.

Travel
Sandra Driben, B.S.Ed., M.Ed.

Intermediate Visual
Mrs. Fredette P. Dolan, A.B.

Social Studies
Renee Dubocq, B.A., M.Ed.

Science
Mrs. Lorraine Evensen, B.S.Ed.

Fourth Grade

Bonnie Leigh Garr, B.S.
Elementary Visual

Warren C. Germain, A.B., LL.B.
M.Ed.

Eighth Grade

John Goss, B.A., M.Ed.

Social Co-ordinator
Mrs. E. Ruth Heisler, B.S.Ed.

Fifth Grade
Mrs. Evelyn Hood

Second-Third Grade
Dorothy Ingersoll, B.A.

Speech Correction

Mrs. Paula Huffman, A.B.

Primary Visual
Joseph E. Jablonski, B.S.Ed.,
M.Ed.

Seventh Grade
Dorothy M. Jackman, B.A.

Ungraded
Judith Keeney, B.A.

Arithmetic
Normand LeBlanc, A.B., M.Ed.

Social Studies
Mrs. Catherine L. Mann, B.A.

Sixth Grade
Lawrence J. Melander, A. B.,
M.Ed.

Advanced Visual
Margaret I. Miller

Commercial
Mrs. Beverly Moller, B.A.

English
Mrs. Marina E. Mulldowney,
B.A., M.Ed.

English, Visual Aid

Perkins School for the Blind

Mrs. Naomi Nelson, B.S.
Science

Judith Palmer, A.B., M.Ed.

Slow-Learners
Mrs. Rhoda F. Pill

First Grade
Mrs. Katherine M. Reilly, B.A.,
M.Ed.

Travel
Mrs. Helmi Salo

Commercial
Marcy Scott, B.A., M.A.

Spanish

Mary H. Shand, B.S., M.Ed.

Slow Learners
Patricia Stone, B.S., M.Ed.

Slow Learners
Mrs. Sally Stuckey, B.S.

Mathematics
Mrs. Dorothy Tabery, B.A.

Kindergarten
Mrs. Sina F. Waterhouse, A.B.,
M.A.

Speech Correction
Mrs. Madeliene Webber

Braille

MUSIC

Paul L. Bauguss, B.M., M.M., Head
Maria-Pia Antonelli, B.M., M.M. Leonid Milius, Artists' Diploma

Mrs. Judith E. Bevans, B.A.

Edward Jenkins, F.T.C.L.

Mrs. Stella D. Jenkins, L.T.C.L.

Henry Santos, B.M.
Eleanor W. Thayer, A.B.
Adele Trytko, B.M., M.M.

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

William W. Howat, B.S.Ed., Head
Department of Industrial Arts

Mrs. Janet Howat, Secretary

Charles Avadanian, B.S., M.Ed.

Eleanor Beissel, B.S.

Mrs. Billie Louise Bentzen, B.A.

Walter P. Carr

Mrs. Joan Carroll

Sidney B. Durfee

Pianoforte Tuning

Julian Green
Kerry McGillicuddy, B.A.
Nancy Nisula, B.A.
Mrs. Carol Paine, B.A.Ed.
Miguel C. Ruiz

Piano Tuning
Mrs. Cathryn Souza

Warner Stenquist

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

A. Claude Ellis, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., Head
Department of Physical Education

Michael John Cataruzolo Carol Ann Enis

Ellen A. Dietrich, B.A. Carol Ann Hoffman, B.S.

William Reagan, B.S., M.Ed.

136th Annual Report

DEAF-BLIND

Mrs. Rose M. Vivian, B.S.Ed., Principal
Department for Deaf -Blind Children

Mrs. Gertrude Stenquist, B.A.
B.S., Ed.M., Research

Nancy V. Robbins, A.B., Ed.M.
Research

Lars Guldager

Supervising Teacher

Elizabeth Banta, B.S., M.S.
Co-ordinator of Pre-School

Services

Janice Vernacchio

Secretary
Mrs. Nancy Yachimski

Transcriber

TEACHERS

Bonnie-Jeanne Booth, B.A.
Mrs. Cristina Castro, B.S.E.,

M.S.
Sarah M. Connelly, B.A.

Assistant Teacher
Mrs. Mary C. Cook, B.A.

Assistant Teacher
Jo-Anne Cort

Assistant Teacher
Wendy Eiseman, B.A., M.A.T.

Assistant Teacher
Mrs. Bernice Goodman, B.S.

Assistant Teacher
Mrs. Maribeth Grant, B.S.
Lewis Huffman, Jr., B.S., M.Ed.
Judy Jacobs

Assistant Teacher
Carol L. Johnson, A.B., Ed.M.
Justin M. Kelly, B.S., M.Ed.

Mrs. Cynthia Maher, B.S.
Christine Marvel, B.A.
Assistant Teacher

Mrs. Ann Meehan, B.S., M.Ed.

NOREEN F. O'ROURKE, B.A.

Assistant Teacher
Leo F. Queenan, B.S.Ed.
Martha B. Root

Assistant Teacher

Mrs. P. Tan Tay Sock Hiang
Singapore Teachers' Training
College

Elizabeth Van Arnam, B.S.,
M.Ed.

Mrs. Dorothy Walsh, B.S., M.Ed.

Carolyn Mills Witt
Assistant Teacher

Mrs. Virginia Guldager, B.A.

TRAINEES, TEACHERS OF THE BLIND

Brother Augustus

Christian Brothers Training
College (Malaysia)
David H. Blezard, B.A.

The University of Leeds
(England)
Brother Girard

Taberd Institution (Vietnam)

Ann C. Hanchett, B.A.

Jackson College
Paul Hartman, B.S.

New York University
Sarabeth A. Hoffman, B.A.

Juniata College

Judith G. Libbey, B.A.
Wheaton College

Nancy T. Long, B.A.
Bates College

Vispi J. Mirza, B.A.

St. Xavia's University
(India)

Anadi C. Mukerji, LA.
Bangabashi College
(India)

Daniel L. Nagengast, B.S.
State University College at
Plattsburgh

Perkins School for the Blind

V. GOPINATHAN NAIR, B.S.C., B.T.

Madras University
(India)
Nancy Nisula, B.A.

University of New Hampshire
Marieanna Pape, B.A., M.A.

University of Massachusetts

Felix Poh-Yirenkyi

Presbyterian Teacher Training
(Ghana)
Marcy Scott, B.A., M.A.

Middlebury College
Patricia A. Souza, B.A.

Pembroke College

Anne L. Van De Water, B.A.
Wells College

TRAINEES, TEACHERS OF THE DEAF-BLIND

Mary L. Davis, B.A.
Smith College

Lieke de Leuw

The Netherlands
(Exchange Teacher)

Marie Kennedy

Balmain Teachers College
(Australia)

Roger H. Ladouceur, B.A.
St. Anselm's College

Helen I. Lazzari, B.A.

University of Massachusetts

Francis X. Maher, B.S.
Worcester State College

Sheldon Maron, B.S.
Boston College

Charles Moore

Sydney Teachers College
(Australia)
Marion N. Obeng

Presbyterian Training College
(Ghana)
Marilyn C. O'Leary, B.S.

State College at Boston
Michael D. Orlansky, B.A.

Yale University
Ursula Sigmundt

Universities of Tubingen
(Germany)
Charlotte A. Turgeon, B.A.

Smith College
Margaret A. Wilson, B.A.

George Washinton University

136th Annual Report

HOUSEMOTHERS

ANAGNOS:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER
Miss Carol L. M. Gray

FIRST ASSISTANT
Miss Karen Litchfield

BRADLEE:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER

Mrs. Annie E. Robinson

FIRST ASSISTANT
Mrs. Geneva F. Goulden

ASSISTANT

Miss Joan C. Massengill

ASSISTANT

Miss Conny Olsen

GLOVER:
SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER
Miss Jeannette V. David

FIRST ASSISTANT
Mrs. Anna F. Armstrong

ASSISTANT

Miss Nancy E. Harding

POTTER:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER
Mrs. Irene S. Allisot

FIRST ASSISTANT
Miss Elaine M. Tulis

ASSISTANT

Miss Kathleen A. Mulready

BROOKS:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER
Mrs. Charlotte A. Tyler

FISHER:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER
Mrs. Mary Shorten

MAY:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER
Mrs. Rebecca H. Sreenan

OLIVER:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER

Miss Marie Carter

BRIDGMAN:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER
Mrs. Margaret J. MacLeod

ELIOT:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER

Mrs. Benigna E. G. Cull

MOULTON:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER

Mrs. Emily J. Weidner

TOMPKINS:

SENIOR HOUSEMOTHER
Mrs. Helen M. Knight

RELIEF HOUSEMOTHERS

Mrs. Elsie B. Guay
Miss Catherine Sinclair
Mrs. M. Louise Thatcher
Mrs. Muriel M. Tollefsen

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THE CLASS OF 1967

GRADUATION EXERCISES 1967

Commencement Day was on Friday, June 9, 1967 with the com-
mencement address by Miss Mary E. Switzer, Commissioner, Vocational
Rehabilitation Administration, Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare.

A Perkins Certificate of Merit was awarded to Dr. Peter J. Salmon
who graduated from Perkins in 1916. The invocation was given by the
Rev. Frederick W. Chapman, Director of the Church of the Good Shep-
herd in Watertown. The graduation class numbered 18 which is rather
larger than average. The Class History of each graduate is as follows: —

DAVID HOWARD BAHARIAN

David came to Perkins in 1952. From the very start his life was to
be music-oriented. Of his life in Lower School, he says, the greatest
events were the performances he gave in the piano recitals in the inter-
mediate grades.

His musical studies continued apace in the Junior and Senior High,
and soon he was performing on the organ as well as the piano. He has
favored us with many performances in the morning Chapel exercises
and this year was our bell ringer at Christmas time as well as during
the lenten season, a first in the latter for which he deserves full credit.

He has not forgotten his academic record which has been a good
one though he would prefer to forget math.

Next year Dave will attend Thayer Academy and the following
year he hopes to continue his study of music.

CAFER T. BARKUS

In the fall of 1965 Cafer came to Perkins from Turkey. He had
studied English at Robert Academy in Istanbul for two years before
journeying to America. His friendliness and ability to get along with
others established him with his classmates and in the cottage.

Very active in sports, he played football and baseball for Bridg-
man. He was also a member of the track and wrestling teams. This year
he was invited to join the P.A.A.

The respect of his fellow students is shown by his election to the
Student Council and to the office of Vice President of his class.

54 136th Annual Report

No one will ever forget the charm he brought to the romantic male
lead in "You Can't Take It With You."

Cafer will attend Brandeis University. He has the best wishes of his
class for continued success.

PAUL EDGAR BURKHARDT

Paul joined us in 1952 and he remembers his Lower School days as
active and happy ones. He threw himself with vigor into the scouting
program, both as a Cub and a Boy Scout.

In the Junior High he joined both the Chorus and Glee Club and
since 1963 he has attended the music festivals.

But the love of Paul's life is amateur radio. He is currently club
correspondent. Obtaining his novice license in his sophomore year, he is
now a general class operator.

Paul has participated in bowling, shuffleboard and football, giving
his best for Tompkins Cottage. His friends call him "Senator," because
of the smooth way he does things.

Paul will be returning for a P.G. year after which he hopes to enter
college and hopefully start on a career in computer programming.

GERALDINE ANN CONLEY

As a newcomer to the Perkins family in 1961, Gerry found it very
easy to establish herself and make many new friends. In her own quiet
way she has made life pleasing with a cheerful word and a pleasant smile.

She has proven to her fellow students that she was able to take on
responsibilities when, in 1966, she was entrusted with a post on Student
Council.

Besides being popular with the students, she has developed a wide
variety of interests. These interests include singing in Glee Club, home
economics, and handwork. She has developed her typing skill to a great
degree.

It is in the field of typing that she hopes to find her vocation, and all
of us wish her the greatest success.

PETER JOSEPH COTE

Peter's early days in Lower School were clouded by health prob-
lems which happily were cleared up in a very short time. Since then it
has been clear sailing.

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Music has figured largely in his life here. He has developed into a
fine accordionist and has won many prizes both in and out of school. As
a member of the Glee Club he has figured prominently in four music
festivals.

He has given his all for Bridgman, first, as a member of the shuffle-
board team and, more recently, as a guard on the football team.

He will be returning in the fall so that he may obtain his Tuning
Certificate. His classmates wish him the best of luck.

BONITA JANE GRIMES

Bonnie undoubtedly has the distinction of having lived in more
places than the rest of her classmates put together. She was born in
Indiana. Shortly thereafter she moved to Ohio where she attended school
through the first half of the fourth grade. There then followed a brief
stay in Baltimore. Her next stop was Cranston, Rhode Island, where she
attended school through grade eight — and then she came to Perkins.

It took Bonnie no time at all to enter into school life. In her fresh-
man year she was Cottage Treasurer; in her sophomore year, she was
Brooks Cottage Captain; and in that same year she began a three-year
stint as a Cheer Leader. As a member of the Drama Club this year she
took a leading role in "You Can't Take It With You" where she showed
considerable talent and great agility.

Her sports credits include baseball and track.

Bonnie will return to Perkins for a post-graduate year.

ELIZABETH JANE HEAP

As a newcomer to Perkins in 1962, Elizabeth soon established
herself as "one of the girls." She joined in the whirl of activities with
great gusto.

She is a great folk music enthusiast and she is one of the Folk Club's
chief boosters. The Drama Club was another of her favorite extracur-
ricular activities. Other strong interests for Bo-Jane (as she is affection-
ately known) are reading, music, typing and creative writing. Her musical
talent has shown itself in her student recital performances and in her
work with the Chorus and Glee Club.

And Bo knows the meaning of the word responsibility. She has
served as Treasurer for her cottage and this year was a member of Stu-
dent Council.

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She has been accepted at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania where
she will begin her studies in the fall. Her classmates wish her the best of
everything.

BARRY PAYNE HUMPHRIES

Barry began his life here at Perkins in 1952. He considers that his
stay in Lower School was comparatively uneventful. His entrance into
the Upper School changed all that.

He made the Eliot shuffleboard team in his very first year. This past
year he played guard on the football team.

As a member of the Glee Club he was good enough to make the
annual music festival last year. He also joined the Chorus which jour-
neyed to Washington for the Anne Sullivan Commemoration in 1966.

Barry will attend Kingsley Hall School for a post-graduate year.

NORMAN PATRICK JACKSON

When Norman came to Perkins at the beginning of his freshman
year, an elder brother and sister were already studying here and would
be graduating ahead of him. Interested in some things, active in others,
Norman profited from and enjoyed every activity that the school offered.
He was a continuous member of the Chorus for four years; and in sports
he was an enthusiastic member of the track team. His interest in sports,
in fact, led to a Bridgman Cottage Captaincy for 1965-66. This year he
received a jacket for his work on the track team.

As a member of the Drama Club he took a part in last year's radio
play, "The Inextinguishable." In "You Can't Take It With You" he gave
a fine performance as Grandpa, a long and difficult role. He has been a
guiding spirit in the Christmas shows and for his work was elected Presi-
dent of the Drama Club this year.

Academically Norman has maintained a high scholastic standard
throughout the years. We congratulate him on his admission to American
International College in Springfield, and we wish him the best of luck
in the years to come.

ELIZABETH LOUISE KIBLER

Betty entered Perkins in 1953. She has been both a Brownie and a
Girl Scout. Although she has always been a day pupil, she has been

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active enough in the athletic program to receive her full share of letters
in track.

She has displayed her musical talent by performing in five recitals.
In last year's junior recital, besides playing the piano, Betty displayed a
beautiful voice with a soprano solo. Naturally she has been a member
of the Chorus, and since the eighth grade she has been in the Glee Club.

Betty has an active life outside school. She is a Campfire Girl and
last year was elected President of her troop. She is also a member of
Chi Rho and enjoys it very much.

Next year Betty will take a P.G. year at Jean D'Arc Academy. This
should be an interesting experience and we all wish her well.

MARGARET A. KINGMAN

A cheery word, a swinging gait, and a ready smile — these best de-
scribe Peggy Kingman. She is very much the individualist with a flair
for the outdoors.

Her career at Perkins began when she was a sophomore. Before that
time she had been a promising horsewoman and had serious thoughts of
becoming a veterinarian.

It did not take Peggy long to become an integral part of her class.
Her New England thrift, originality and sharp humor won the hearts of
all her classmates.

Peggy will achieve her goals with her winning personality and a
determination that is an inspiration to all whose lives she has touched.
She will return for a post-graduate year to prepare for college.

GERALD CHARLES LORUSSO

A product of the Quincy public school system, Jerry came to us in
January of 1959. He jumped immediately and with enthusiasm into the
Scouting program and quickly won for himself a circle of friends.

Social activities have always interested Jerry, so it was natural that
he was a charter member of the Social Club. He has been an active mem-
ber of the Radio Club, Folk Club and the Drama Club. He took the
part of one of the G-men in this year's production of "You Can't Take It
With You," and was also very helpful in preparing the set for that show.
Jerry kept the boys' senior store running at peak efficiency.

Jerry plans to attend Blue Hills Regional Technical Vocational
School where he will be enrolled in the data processing program.

58 136th Annual Report

LOUIS JACQUES MATHIEU

Louis entered the Perkins scene in 1954. He feels his life in Lower
School was very routine, save for the occasional skirmishes he had with
his cottage mates.

In the Upper School he joined the Tompkins bowling team and
helped them to a championship in his sophomore year. Athletics, though,
are not a strong point with Louis, and he himself points to his 83 points
on the physical fitness test as evidence to the fact.

Louis is a scholar and gained a reputation as a "walking" library.
Certainly a most familiar sight in the corridors is Louis with his hefty
bookbag.

Louis will attend Assumption College.

PAUL JERROD PENA

Paul came to Perkins in 1955. From the start Paul showed his aca-
demic ability and has the distinction of a double promotion from the
fourth to the sixth grade.

Paul has a great love for folk music. He is a fine guitarist and a
master on the bass. He can find his way around the piano keys with
great dexterity. Paul's deep bass will indeed be missed in the Chorus and
Glee Club.

As a member of the Drama Club he performed with credit this year
in "You Can't Take It With You."

Paul's marks in math have earned him deep respect and admiration
among his peers. With his natural abilities, college-bound Paul should
have no trouble in continuing an already enviable record. He enters
Clark University in the fall.

JAMES HENRY RALPH

Jim left Methuen High School to enter Perkins in the fall of 1965.
He made friends quickly and entered wholeheartedly into the life of the
school.

Athletics were his forte. He was a most valuable member in the in-
tramural sports program for Eliot Cottage. His services were recognized
in his appointment this year as House Captain.

He was a fine wrestler and track man and he had the honor of
being captain of both teams. He was a guiding force in the Perkins
Athletic Association.

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For the last two summers Jim has held down a job as cook, and he
plans to do the same this year. In the fall he enters Fitchburg State Col-
lege. Our best wishes go with him in his future endeavors.

MARY KATHLEEN ROACH

Kathy, a Perkins student since her kindergarten days, has enjoyed
a great popularity as a result of a warm and vivacious personality and a
completely winning way. She has not confined her activities to the school,
but has a wealth of experiences and activities that go far afield.

From her father Kathy learned to appreciate great works of litera-
ture. She learned to appreciate Shakespeare at an early age.

Her interest in languages has grown by leaps and bounds. She
speaks Spanish fluently and has had the good fortune to spend a summer
in Colombia with a pupil from that country.

She has been a moving force in the Folk Club and has achieved
something of a local fame by her performances in coffee houses in the
Boston area. She has a great love of the theater and her talent was amply
demonstrated by her performance as Alice in "You Can't Take It With
You."

Kathy's summer will be an exciting and busy one as she journeys to
Morristown for her dog guide. In the fall she will enter Emmanuel Col-
lege to further her studies with emphasis in languages. Her classmates
and friends wish her all the best.

MARC HENRY ST. ONGE

Marc came to us from St. Joseph's School in Lowell in 1961. Marc,
with his likable personality arid unfailing desire to be the best in what-
ever he attempted, found the adjustment one with which he could cope
easily.

Well-rounded individual that he is, Marc has achieved much aca-
demically and physically. Since his seventh-grade year he has been a
member of both the wrestling and track teams, and he was at one time
captain of both teams. He participated in intramural sports with a spe-
cial love for baseball.

Further he has these credits : Cottage Captain for three years, Presi-
dent of the Perkins Athletic Association, Student Council Representative,
Vice President of his class in the freshman year, and thereafter its Presi-
dent for the three succeeding years.

136th Annual Report

Marc will begin his college career at Boston College this fall. We
wish him well and we are sure he will continue to achieve an outstanding
record.

JOY A. TARANTO

Joy entered Perkins in 1953. Almost from the very beginning, she
has been known especially for her musical talents. Many an afternoon
the girls in the cottage would gather round while she entertained them by
playing the piano.

However, she did not confine herself to music. At the outset, she
was an active participant in the athletic program of both the Upper and
Lower schools.

Joy has served in such responsible positions as cheerleader, Student
Council member, cottage House Captain, and Girls' Athletic Association
President.

Last year one of her major accomplishments was her solo piano
recital. In this year's music festival, she ably represented Perkins by
playing two organ pieces.

After graduation Joy plans to further her education in music. We
wish her well in all her endeavors.

Perkins School for the Blind

REGISTRATION AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 1967

NEW ENGLAND

Connecticut

Maine

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

OUTSIDE NEW ENGLAND

Arkansas

Colorado

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Louisiana

Maryland

Michigan ,

Minnesota

Missouri

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Pennsylvania

Tennessee

Utah

Virginia

Washington

OVERSEAS

Brazil

Canada

Cyprus

Guatemala

Hong Kong

Singapore

Vietnam

Boys

100

18
6

132

1
1
1

Girls

3
96

3
11

123

1
1
1
2
1

1
1
1

Total

196

255

2
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
8
1
3
1
3
1
1
1

DISTRIBUTION

Kindergarten 8

Primary 14

Intermediate 20

Ungraded, Lower School 16

Upper School 77

Ungraded, Upper School 7

Deaf-Blind 14

TOTAL REGISTRATION 156

7
22

6
78

9
18

11
21
42
22
155
16
32

143 299

Joan B. Smith, Registrar

136th Annual Report

STUDENTS 1967-1968
Lower School Girls

Benenati, Antoinette, Boston, Mass.
Berry, Brenda Mae, Ayer, Mass.
Bills, Raye Elaine, Brattleboro, Vt.
Bills, Rosemarie, Brattleboro, Vt.
Botelho, Susan, Fall River, Mass.
Boutin, Waneta May, Island Pond, Vt.
Bromley, Lois Marie, Underhill, Vt.

Cohen, Sariann, Randolph, Mass.
Corbett, Maureen, Worcester, Mass.

D'Amelio, Florence, Allston, Mass.
DeChellis, Mary Ellen, Dorchester, Mass.
Dick, Tina Marie, Middletown, R. I.
Dumais, Diane Lee, Marlboro, Mass.

Facteau, Susan, Dunbarton, N. H.
Foye, Cynthia M., Dorchester, Mass.

Gifford, Patricia Marie, Brighton, Mass.
Gionet, Charlene, Shirley, Mass.

Kaiser, Laurraine, East Providence, R. I.
Kelly, Florence A., Amesbury, Mass.
Kraeger, Ann, Wayland, Mass.

Lafond, Maureen, Cumberland, R. I.

Minckler, Lorraine, Swanton, Vt.

Nicholas, Bernadette Lucy, Fall River, Mass.
Nutting, Dawn, Peace Dale, R. I.

O'Brien, Patrice, Braintree, Mass.

Parker, Jean, Portsmouth, N. H.
Phipps, Carole Lynn, Watertown, Mass.
Pimentel, Clarinha, Hudson, Mass.
Ploof, Cindy Marie, Biddeford, Me.
Polk, Linda, Natick, Mass.

Raschi, Linda Marie, Somerville, Mass.
Reid, Robin, Springfield, Mass.
Romboldi, Susan Alice, Plymouth, Mass.

Stone, Kathleen, Methuen, Mass.
Sullivan, Mary Ann, Melrose, Mass.

Torpey, Michele, Lowell, Mass.

Wiggin, Kelly, Essex Junction, Vt.

Yorks, Sharon, Wilmington, Mass.

Lower School Boys

Arena, John, Belmont, Mass.
Arsenault, Donald, Gardner, Mass.

Beaudin, Donald, Worcester, Mass.
Botelho, Robert, Fall River, Mass.

Carver, Paul, Alstead, N. H.

Chisholm, Craig, Maynard, Mass.

Christie, John F., Ill, Weymouth, Mass.

Conti, John, Quincy, Mass.

Cook, Blaine, Shannock, R. I.

Crowell, Herbert Joaquin, Dennisport, Mass

DaSilva, Robert, East Wareham, Mass.
Davis, Richard, North Adams, Mass.
Dow, Allen, Milford, Mass.
Dubois, Ronald, New Bedford, Mass.

Eisele, Rodney, Kenmore, N. Y.

Ferranti, David, Cranston, R. I.
Fontaine, Guy, Woonsocket, R. I.

Garrick, Daniel Warren, Jr., Stoughton,
Mass.

Grover, John, Medfield, Mass.
Guba, Robert, Roslindale, Mass.

Hachey, Robert, Reading, Mass.
Harwood, Raymond, Providence, R. I.
Holmberg, Nelson, Rehoboth, Mass.
Hunt, David, Medford, Mass.
Hunter, Douglas L., Roxbury, Mass.

Irving, Raymond, Cranston, R. I.

Kenney, William, Norton, Mass.

Kline, John Bishop, North Smithfield, R. I.

Kozacki, John, Holyoke, Mass.

Laliberte, James, Otter River, Mass.
Lantz, Michael, Waltham, Mass.
Lathrop, Dean Ray, Kittery Point, Me.
Leary, Timothy, East Taunton, Mass.
Lopardo, Richard, Clarksburg, Mass.
Lounsbury, Dana, Danvers, Mass.

MacKenzie, George Frederick, Jr., Sudbury,

Mass.
Mahan, Kevin Michael, Auburn, Mass.
McKenna, Thomas F., Ill, Beverly, Mass.

Perkins School for the Blind

Lower School Boys (Continued)

Moreira, Celso, Cambridge, Mass.
Moreira, John, Cambridge, Mass.
Moreira, Walter, Cambridge, Mass.
Murphy, Darnel Owen, West Harwick, Mass.

Nutting, Richard, Peace Dale, R. I.

Olsen, John, Vineyard Haven, Mass.
Olsen, Zebulon, Vineyard Haven, Mass.

Phelps, Herbert, East Greenwich, R. I.
Pope, Kevin, Ashway, R. I.
Pouliot, John, Amesbury, Mass.

Raschi, Richard, Somerville, Mass.
Ravenalle, Lionel, III, Westport, Mass.

Sallander, William Nelson, Warwick, R. I.
Sassi, Ralph, Braintree, Mass.
Snellman, Paul, Watertown, Mass.
Soule, Alan Lee, Marlboro, Mass.
Sturgeon, Michael Scott, Bedford, Mass.

Tack, Allan, Manchester, N. H.
Tourville, Andrew, Lowell, Mass.

Wertman, Tobias, Vancouver, B. C, Canada

Upper School Girls

Aizenman, Frida, Lawrence, Mass.
Anderson, Marda M., Westover Air Force

Base, Mass.
Archambault, Anne Marie, Pittsfield, Mass.
Arey, Penelope Marie, Billerica, Mass.
Atwood, Donna, Andover, Mass.

Bennett, Gail M., Auburn, Mass.
Bicknell, Charlotte L., North Grafton, Mass.
Burgess, Ann, Manchester, Mass.
Burgess, Sandra Diane, Springfield, Mass.
Burke, Janice, Watertown, Mass.

Carroll, Sheilah, Springfield, Mass.
Caruso, Lucille, Watertown, Mass.
Casey, Diane, Salem, Mass.
Cassil, Carolyn, Lincoln, Mass.
Coyle, Kathleen, Dorchester, Mass.
Crowley, Carol, Westwood, Mass.

Demings, Patricia, West Warwick, R. I.
Demling, Andrea, Dedham, Mass.
DeVries, Sandra Jean, Arlington, Mass.
DiSanza, Claire E., Teaneck, N. J.
Donovan, Dorothy Rita, North Billerica,

Mass.
Drumm, Joyce, Williamstown, Mass.
Duclos, Valerie Mae, Pittsfield, Mass.

Eames, Kathy, Wilmington, Mass.
Ellington, Lillian, Charlestown, Mass.

Famiglietti, Ann Marie, Pawtucket, R. I.
Fanelle, Donna M., Maiden, Mass.
Feeney, Colleen E., Worcester, Mass.

Gallant, Pauline Eunice, Pinehurst, Mass.
Gates, Jeannette A., Hamilton, Mass.
Geddis, Jan Ellen, Turners Falls, Mass.
Gerardi, Barbara Ann, West Roxbury, Mass
Gerardi, Bernadette Marie, West Roxbury,

Mass.
Gernrich, Candice L., Holden, Mass.

Glazebrook, Karen, Weymouth, Mass.
Graham, Jacqueline, Worcester, Mass.
Graham, Judith, Worcester, Mass.
Grande, Kathleen, Arlington, Mass.
Grimes, Bonita J., Cranston, R. I.
Grout, Grayce, Wayland, Mass.

Hafey, Mary T., East Longmeadow, Mass.
Hancock, Susan Ellen, Somerville, Mass.
Harbberts, Mary Jean, Framingham, Mass.
Hennessy, Marie Ann, Norwood, Mass.
Henry, Marie Dianne, North Clarendon, Vt.
Henry, Mary Theresa, Norwood, Mass.
Holland, Peggy Lynn, Burlington, Vt.

Jones, Susan, St. Charles, 111.

King, Jo- Ann Mary, Adams, Mass.
Kingman, Margaret, Brighton, Mass.

Lan, Anna, Saigon, Vietnam
Lavoie, Irene, Greene, R. I.
LeBlanc, Maria, Fitchburg, Mass.
LeBlanc, Raimona, Leominster, Mass.
L'Ecuyer, Claire, Fitchburg, Mass.
Leffers, Charlotte H., Needham, Mass.
Levitz, Susan, Newark, N. J.
Lewis, Charlene Mary, Cambridge, Mass.

Machi, Cristina, Sherbourne, Mass.
Mahoney, Lucille Mary, Hyde Park, Mass.
Marquis, Linda, Frenchville, Me.
Martin, Sandra Faith, Fall River, Mass.
McGoff, Gloria Jean, Westford, Mass.
Mitchell, Patricia Ann, Stoneham, Mass.
Morais, Bernardina, Hudson, Mass.
Morin, Jane Alice, Millbury, Mass.
Mountain, Sandra Marie, Gloucester, Mass.

Nguyen, Chien Thi, Vietnam
Nicholas, Elizabeth, Fall River, Mass.

Owens, Sherry, Springfield, Mass.

136th Annual Report

Upper School Girls (Continued)
Perron, Judith Anne, Suncook, N. H.
Quang, Theresa, Saigon, Vietnam

Snow, Janice Lynn, Lincoln, R. I.
Sprague, Ruth E., Porter, Me.
Strazzullo, Ann Marie, Waltham, Mass.

Rabtoy, Rose Marie, Windsor, Vt. Varney, Diane V., Worcester, Mass.

Radicioni, Renee Mary, Westerly, R. I. Veno, Donna Louise, North Reading, Mass.

Roberson, Joan Carol, East Providence, R. I.
Rogosa, Linda Hope, Lynn, Mass. White, Carol Linn, Worcester, Mass.

Wood, Joyce, Springfield, Mass.
Schneider, Clare Ann, Mattapan, Mass. Wood, Linda, Springfield, Mass.

Schoenemann, Sandra, Springfield, Mass. Woolf , Laura Lee, Newton Highlands, Mass.

Upper School Boys

Achin, Henry R., Lowell, Mass.
Adil, Nevzat, Evdim, Limassol, Cyprus
Alexander, Bruce B., State Line, Mass.
Alger, Theodore, Millis, Mass.
Allen, Frank, West Newton, Mass.
Anderson, Gary, Burlington, N. J.
Antonetti, Ralph, Weymouth, Mass.

Baker, John V., Jr., Dorchester, Mass.
Baran, Stephen, Kittery, Me.
Beaulieu, Robert, Taunton, Mass.
Beckwith, Robert B., Waltham, Mass.
Berry, Thomas R., Ill, Kingston, Mass.
Bilodeau, Dennis J., Barre, Vt.
Blier, Mark Andre, Leominster, Mass.
Botelho, Manuel, Fall River, Mass.
Brady, Dennis, Middletown, R. I.
Briggs, Neil Wayne, Ludlow, Vt.
Briggs, Richard Eric, Ludlow, Vt.
Burkhardt, Paul Edgar, Newtonville, Mass.

Chin, Walden, Pawtucket, R. I.
Cicchese, J. Roger, Abington, Mass.
Coco, Donald, Dorchester, Mass.
Connolly, Jeffrey D., Framingham, Mass.
Cote, Peter Joseph, Lawrence, Mass.
Cronin, David John, Bellingham, Mass.

Dalton, Alan C, South Burlington, Vt.

DeFort, Gerald Robert, Rockport, Mass.

Deignan, Donald Donovan, Rumford, R. I.

DelPape, Paul, Pawtucket, R. I.

Deming. Russell Charles, Somerville, Mass.

Dillon, David J., Paxton, Mass.

Donle, Robert, Waltham, Mass.

Doody, Gerard Stephen, Arlington, Mass.

Downs, Richard, Maiden, Mass.

Eskett, John Robert, Belchertown, Mass.

Farrell, Robert, Framingham, Mass.
Fischer, William Shackford, Dan vers, Mass.
Friedlander, Jeffrey, Providence, R. I.

Gagnon, Wayne Paul, Cambridge, Mass.

Gilmour, Lawrence, Peabody, Mass.
Greenberg, Harvey S., Watertown, Mass.
Grimes, Glenn Edward, Pawtucket, R. I.
Gruener, Howard, Rockaway, N. J.

Hall, Ellis, Jr., Roxbury, Mass.
Harlow, Steven, Glastonbury, Conn.

Johnson, Larry S., Bucksport, Me.

Lawford, Douglas, Dorchester, Mass.
Leung, Sau Tin, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Lowney, Edward P., Maiden, Mass.

Maling, William R., Kennebunk, Me.
Margie, Brian Scott, Whitman, Mass.
Marshall, Rubens Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil
Martino, Michael Angelo, Jr., Providence,

R.I.
McNutt, Richard Wilfred, Rutland, Mass.
Milliken, Frederick Joseph, III, Dedham,

Mass.
Mills, Paul, Somerville, Mass.
Miron, Francisco, Guatemala, Central

America
Montgomery, Larry S., Portsmouth, R. I.

Nadeau, Paul Arthur, Taunton, Mass.
Nicholas, Michael, Fall River, Mass.
Nicholson, William Alfred, South
Weymouth, Mass.

Oleson, James Nelson, Cambridge, Mass.
Ostellino, John A., Pittsfield, Mass.
Ouellette, William, Fall River, Mass.

Palano, Christopher J., Framingham, Mass.
Palano, Joseph P., Framingham, Mass.
Pavao, John D., Dighton, Mass.
Pollock, Joseph K., Jr., Wilton, N. H.
Polselli, Dennis, Fall River, Mass.

Remaly, Mark, Greenfield, Mass.
Richards, Douglas Sterling, Newton, Mass.

Perkins School for the Blind

Upper School Boys (Continued)

Rogers, Stephen, Manasquan, N. J.
Rosa, Jeffrey A., West Springfield, Mass.
Rossier, Samuel E., Jr., Sutton, Vt.

Sawyer, Richard E., Mansfield, Mass.
Sheehan, Michael J., Westwood, Mass.
Silver, Michael, Saxonville, Mass.
Sten, Albert, North Abington, Mass.

Swan, Frederick, Leicester, Mass.

Tucker, Daniel Edward, Fairhaven, Mass.
Turner, James Emmett, Quincy, Mass.

Ward, Irving Masterson, Burlington, Vt.
Wojnarowicz, Stanley, Trenton, N. J.
Wright, Randall, Dorchester, Mass.

Amato, Catherine M., Memphis, Tenn.
Anderson, Patricia Jayne, Flushing, Mich.
Arnspiger, Laurie Ann, Denver, Colo.

Babbs, Angelia Marilyn, Pittsfield, Mass.
Ballard, Vicki, Littleton, Colo.
Brummett, Deborah Kay, Evansville, Ind

Chan, Poh Lin, Singapore, Malaysia
Crowley, Teresa Jo, Aztec, N. M.
Curnutt, Terri L., New Castle, Ind.

Daniels, Sharon, Camdenton, Mo.

Deaf-Blind Girls

Gilbrough, Christine, Seattle, Wash.
Helgason, Sharon Louise, St. Paul, Minn.
Leach, Sheila, Camden, Ark.

McClellan, Elizabeth, Salt Lake City, Utah
McCrohan, Dorothy, Glenolden, Penn.

Parkhurst, Linda, Norwich, Conn.

Sabonaitis, Gayle Ann, Worcester, Mass.
Surritte, Barbara J., Cambridge, Mass.

Deaf-Blind Boys

Clancy, Martin J., Bayside, L. I., N. Y.
Evans, Mark, Baton Rouge, La.

Fawcett, James Leslie, Renfrew, Ontario,
Canada

Gilchrist, Timothy Robert, Renfrew,
Ontario, Canada

Hannah, Timothy, Dickson, Tenn.
Hughs, Robert, Coon Rapids, Minn,

Jerram, Ronald, Elmira, N. Y.
Jimenez, Wilfredo, Perth Amboy, N. J.

Kastner, Richard, Nutley, N. J.
Merschman, Steven, West Point, Iowa
Obie, Isaac, Atlanta, Ga.
Rakes, Stephen, Wolwine, Va.
Thompson, Rayvon, Riddelton, Tenn.
Yingling, Fred, Union Bridge, Md.

Finance

TREASURER'S REPORT

The report of the Treasurer for the year ended August 31, 1967 is
submitted herewith. The accounts of the Corporation were audited by
Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, and their report is attached.

Income from tuition and board of $1,131,639 was approximately
$25,000 greater than the previous year because of a slight increase in
enrollment. Investment income assigned to the funds was at the rate of
7.00% of book value. The actual income from securities was 7.04% of
book value, compared with 6.76% in the previous year. Unassigned in-
come of $93,813 was added to Unallocated Investment Income.

Operating expenses of $2,042,764 were approximately $132,500
higher than the previous year, and the entire increase was attributable to
higher salaries and payments for retirement benefits. Expenses for the
year exceeded income by $32,813 and were charged to the Reserve Fund
for Maintenance and Replacement. Total charges to this fund for the year
amounted to $120,594, and the balance on August 31, 1967 was $803,-
299.

The Howe Memorial Press sales were slightly higher than the
previous year but operating income showed a loss of $13,297 compared
with a gain of $4,872 in the previous year. Total net income, including
that from its endowment, was $3,307 as against $19,683 last year.

Respectfully submitted,

Ralph B. Williams, Treasurer

Perkins School for the Blind 67

INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC
ACCOUNTANTS' REPORT

To Board of Trustees of

Perkins School For The Blind

We have examined the balance sheet of Perkins School For The Blind as at
August 31, 1967 and the following related statements for the year then ended:

Statement of Expenses and Resources Used to Meet Expenses

Operating Expenses

Howe Memorial Press Fund Statement of Income and Expense

Summary of Changes in Current Funds

Summary of Changes in Invested Funds

Summary of Changes in Plant Funds

Summary of Changes in Howe Memorial Press Funds

Deaf-Blind Department Statement of Expenses and Resources

Used to Meet Expenses
Changes in Principal of Deaf-Blind Fund

Our examination was made in accordance with generally accepted auditing stand-
ards, and accordingly included such tests of the accounting records and such other
auditing procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We previ-
ously examined and reported on the above statements for the year ended August
31, 1966.

In our opinion, the aforementioned statements present fairly the financial po-
sition of Perkins School For The Blind at August 31, 1967 and 1966, and the re-
sults of its operations for the years then ended in conformity with generally ac-
cepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis.

Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery
Boston, Massachusetts
October 4, 1967

68 136th Annual Report

COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEETS

August 31, 1967 and August 31, 1966

ASSETS

Current assets
Cash

1967 1966

Unrestricted $ 37,555 $ 230,508

Restricted 112,232 117,420

Accounts receivable 15,022 4,608

Due from Howe Memorial Press 6,264 652

Prepaid expense 14,189

185,262 353,188

Investments (note A)

General investments 16,501,606 14,951,528

Special investments 2,380,675 2,359,031

Due from current funds 29,250 226,777

Cash 11,231 30,538

18,922,762 17,567,874
Less participation of plant funds 803,299 795,963

18,119,463 16,771,911

Plant assets, at cost

Land and buildings 4,054,183 3,946,547

Furniture and equipment 342,947 318,682

Library books 115,389 123,814

Music equipment 36,892 36,892

Participation in investments 803,299 795,963

5,352,710 5,221,898

Howe Memorial Press assets

Cash 48,693 23,130

Securities (note A) 302,097 291,189

Accounts receivable 108,327 91,785

Inventories, at lower of cost or market 142,257 152,619

Building improvements, machinery and equipment,

at cost, less accumulated depreciation $73,320

and $65,790 139,928 144,210

741,302 702,933

Total assets $24,398,737 $23,049,930

Perkins School for the Blind 69

COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEETS

August 31, 1967 and August 31, 1966

LIABILITIES AND FUNDS

1967 1966

Current liabilities and funds

Accounts payable

Due to invested funds

Director's discretionary fund

Unexpended gifts for restricted purposes ....
Unexpended income for restricted purposes . .

Invested funds
Endowments

Income restricted

Income unrestricted

Funds functioning as endowments

Income restricted

Income unrestricted

Unallocated investment income
Undistributed net gain on sale of

General investments

Special investments

Plant funds and reserve

Reserve for maintenance and replacement
Plant capital

$ 43,780
29,250
11,627
33,994
66,611

$ 8,991

226,777

12,783

46,989

57,648

185,262

353,188

705,443
3,119,947

700,361
2,828,567

801,518
7,677,163
1,383,651

730,532
7,539,308
1,289,838

3,481,799
949,942

2,760,258
923,047

18,119,463

16,771,911

803,299
4,549,411

795,963
4,425,935

5,352,710

5,221,898

Howe Memorial Press liabilities and funds

Accounts payable 9,430 1,651

Due to current funds 6,264 652

Advances from customers 4,587 5,990

Accrued payroll 17,913 7,360

Funds

Income restricted 24,839 24,839

Income unrestricted 12,586 12,586

Principal and income unrestricted 665,683 649,855

741,302 702,933

Total liabilities and funds $24,398,737 $23,049,930

Notes:

A — Purchased securities are carried at cost; donated securities are carried at market value
at date of gifts. Market values of the general investments at August 31, 1967 were
$25,364,999. The market values of the special investments on August 31, 1967 were
$3,934,257. The market values of the securities of the Howe Memorial Press funds on
August 31, 1967 were $442,131.
The unfunded past service liability under the school's revised employees' retirement
plan, being charged over twenty-five years from 1958, amounted to approximately
$71,500 at August 31, 1967 and $82,000 at August 31, 1966.

70 136th Annual Report

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPENSES
AND RESOURCES USED TO MEET EXPENSES

Years Ended August 31, 1967 and 1966

1967 1966

Total operating expenses (see page 71) $2,1 18,740 $1,948,955

Income

Tuition and board

Government and private agencies 1,089,994 1,075,924

Other sources 41,645 30,840

Library services 37,020 48,540

Net miscellaneous income (expense) 2,694 2,816

Total operating income 1,171,353 1,158,120

Excess of operating expenses 947,387 790,835

Appropriation (from) to reserve for maintenance and

replacement (32,813) 49,857

Net operating expenses and appropriation $ 914,574 $ 840,692

Resources

Income from outside trusts

Restricted 9,956 9,547

Unrestricted 31,431 25,379

Other 3,630 6,180

Unrestricted gifts 1,546 2,389

Income of invested funds used

Restricted endowments 5,082 4,570

Unrestricted endowments 239,399 220,027

Other unrestricted purposes 534,113 476,330

Deaf-Blind purposes 60,354 54,311

Principal of Deaf-Blind Fund 29,063 41,959

Resources used to meet net operating ex-
penses and appropriation $ 914,574 $ 840,692

Perkins School for the Blind

OPERATING EXPENSES

Year Ended August 31, 1967

1967

Administration

Special departments

Library

Health

Social service

Psychology and guidance

Education

Literary

Industrial arts

Music

Deaf-Blind

Teacher training

Household

General

Food

Laundry

Maintenance

Engineering

Fuel

Buildings

Grounds

Other (transportation, insurance and
miscellaneous)

Retirement benefits and taxes

Provision for maintenance and replace-
ment

Treasurer's office

New equipment

Allocation to Howe Memorial Press
Fund

Acquisition of plant assets out of income

Salaries

Expenses

Total

$ 130,177

$ 70,642

$ 200,819

62,262
27,495
19,953

45,711

4,991
2,983
1,792
2,007

67,253
30,478
21,745
47,718

155,421

11,773

167,194

346,932
75,964
65,512

193,955
18,095

12,617

3,626

1,785

(1,322)

10,596

359,549
79,590
67,297

192,633
28,691

700,458

27,302

727,760

247,871
25,056

22,968

95,264

1,381

270,839
95,264

26,437

272,927

119,613

392,540

77,642

74,465
55,872

29,039

35,847

13,919

5,379

106,681
35,847
88,384
61,251

207,979

84,184

292,163

30,185
142,329

9,000

72,000
14,714
11,353

72,000
23,714
11,353

$1,475,962

$584,095

$2,060,057

(17,293)

2,042,764
75,976

Total operating expenses (to page 70) $2,118,740

72 1 36th Annual Report

HOWE MEMORIAL PRESS FUND

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSE

Years Ended August 31, 1967 and 1966

1967 1966

Sales

Appliances $ 76,335 $ 75,247

Braille writers 469,207 452,819

Braille printing 36,701 52,113

Stereotype machine 8,045 7,000

590,288 587,179

Cost of sales

Appliances $ 74,425 $ 71,561

Braille writers 338,549 321,551

Braille printing 40,011 55,017

Stereotype machine 15,808 10,869

468,793 458,998

Gross margin 121,495 128,181

Operating expenses

Administrative salaries 38,638 37,884

Administrative expense 15,686 14,156

Depreciation 12,435 1 1,673

Maintenance 7,084 6,353

Insurance 3,967 4,284

Retirement benefits and taxes 31,725 23,502

Provision for uncollectible accounts 3,687 2,286

Miscellaneous 777 4,019

Rent 3,500 3,500

Allocation of administrative expenses from Perkins

School 17,293 15,652

134,792 123,309

Operating income or (loss) (13,297) 4,872

Other income

Interest and dividends 16,021 14,283

Transfer from unexpended income for restricted pur-
poses 568 528

Donations and miscellaneous (net) 15

16,604 14,811

Net income $ 3,307 $ 19,683

Perkins School for the Blind

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN CURRENT FUNDS

Year Ended August 31, 1967

Balance, beginning of year

Receipts

Gifts and legacies

Title I Project

Income from outside trusts

Publication fund

Other

Total

Transfers

Income from invested funds . . .
Capitalization of income ......

Other

Net transfers

Expenditures

Used to meet operating expenses

Scholarships

Title I Project

Director's specified purposes . . .

Conferences and travel

Publication printing

Student medical care

Perkins Binet

Other

Total

Balance, end of year

Director's

Unexpended

Discretionary

Income and

Fund

Gifts

$12,783

$104,637

4,333

5,094

49,040

52,353

1,838

5,086

8,000

9,419

116,325

43,497

(10,164)

3,126

(2,495)

3,126

30,838

46,564

3,755

8,840

54,781

9,946

9,233

6,518

5,897

9,494

9,868

13,701

151,195

$11,627

$100,605

74 13 6th Annual Report

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN INVESTED FUNDS

Year Ended August 31, 1967

Funds
Functioning Undistributed
Endowment as Net Gain on

Funds Endowments Investments Total

Balance, beginning of year $3,528,928 $9,559,678 $3,683,305 $16,771,911

Receipts

Gifts and legacies .. . 291,380 320,680 612,060

Investment income

(note) 288,424 682,752 971,176

Gain on sale of in-
vestments 748,436 748,436

Total 579,804 1,003,432 748,436 2,331,672

Transfers

Capitalization of in-
come 10,164 10,164

Restricted income to

current funds (37,495) (6,002) (43,497)

Net transfers (27,331) (6,002) (33,333)

Expenditures

Income used for oper-
ations from
Restricted

endowments . . 5,082 5,082

Unrestricted

endowments . . 239,399 239,399

Unrestricted
funds

functioning

as endowments 534,113 534,113

Funds restricted
for deaf-blind

use 1 1,530 48,824 60,354

Principal used for

deaf-blind purposes 29,063 29,063

Anne Sullivan

Centennial 11,434 11,434

ICEBY

Conference 29,668 29,668

Acquisition of
plant assets 41,674 41,674

Total 256,011 694,776 950,787

Balance, end of year $3,825,390 $9,862,332 $4,431,741 $18,119,463

Note — Investment income of the general investments was distributed in 1967 at 7% of a
weighted average of each participating fund. The actual earnings were 7.04% of the
general investments stated on the same basis.

Perkins School for the Blind

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN PLANT FUNDS

Year Ended August 31, 1967
Reserve for

Balance, beginning of year

Additions

Gifts and legacies

Investment income

From operations

Provision for maintenance

and replacement

Plant acquisitions

Plant acquisitions from

Invested funds

Total

Reductions

Used for operations 32,813

Replacements and special main-
tenance

Library books depreciation .

Total

Balance, end of year

Maintenance

and
Replacement

Plant
Capital

$4,425,935

Total

$795,963

$5,221,898

55,930

2,898

2,898
55,930

72,000

87,329

72,000
87,329

41,674

127,930

131,901

259,831

32,813

87,781

8,425

87,781
8,425

120,594

8,425

129,019

$803,299

$4,549,411

$5,352,710

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN HOWE MEMORIAL PRESS FUNDS

Year Ended August 31, 1967

Funds with Principal

Restricted Unrestricted Total

Balance, beginning of year $37,425 $649,855 $687,280

Additions

Investment income 872 15,149 16,021

Net income or (loss) from operations (13,297) (13,297)

Gain on sale of investments 12,521 12,521

Other 15 15

872 14,388 15,260

Transfers

From current funds 568 568

Other (872) 872

Balance, end of year $37,425 $665,683 $703,108

76 136th Annual Report

DEAF-BLIND DEPARTMENT

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPENSES AND

RESOURCES USED TO MEET EXPENSES

Years ended August 31, 1967 and 1966

1967 1966

Expenses

Teaching salaries and expenses $192,633 $193,461

Share of other school expenses (note) 163,016 155,129

Total operating expenses .' 355,649 348,590

Income

Tuition and board 172,299 159,250

Excess of operating expenses $183,350 $189,340

Resources

Deaf-Blind Fund investment income 47,896 42,848

Deaf-Blind purposes investment income 12,458 11,463

Share of income from invested funds (note) 85,459 81,244

Share of other income (note) 6,577 9,959

Income from outside trust 1,897 1,867

Principal of Deaf-Blind Fund 29,063 41,959

$183,350 $189,340

Note — A proportionate share of applicable school expense and income has been allocated to the
Deaf-Blind department on the basis of student enrollment and use of facilities.

CHANGES IN PRINCIPAL OF DEAF-BLIND FUND

Years Ended August 31, 1967 and 1966

Balance at beginning of year $647,916 $635,656

Add

Contributions received 67,184 68,396

Less expenses of campaign (11,487) (12,562)

Net 55,697 55,834

Legacies received 4,000

Total 59,697 55,834

Less

Transfer to Grace M. and Seymour B. Willett

Family Scholarship Fund 1,615

Net loss of Deaf-Blind Department for the year 29,063 41,959

Total reductions 29,063 43,574

Balance at end of year $678,550 $647,916

Perkins School for the Blind

SCHOOL FUNDS AUGUST 31, 1967

Endowments — Income restricted for:

Deaf-Blind

Joseph B. Glover Fund $ 7,661.07

Glover Funds, for Blind-Deaf Mutes 2,168.61

Henry Clay Jackson Fund 127,870.87

Augustine Schurtleff Fund 2,681.37

Thomas Stringer Fund 24,331.91

Kindergarten

Charles Tidd Baker Fund 100,432.20

Ira Hiland (income to W.E.R. for life) 2,056.80

Leonard & Jerusha Hyde Room 8,228.31

Emeline Morse Lane Fund (books) 2,056.80

Other

Charles Tidd Baker Fund 49,844.11

Jonathan Woodbury Clough (education teachers) . 141,737.74
Anna E. Douglas Fund (for the printing of braille

books) 22,500.00

Albertina Eastman Ahimnae Scholarship Fund 13,562.64

John D. Fisher (education teachers and others) . 8,163.12

John Goldthwait Fund (charitable) 6,772.18

Eliza O. Harrington (medical care for unfortunate

students) 1,140.79

Harris Fund (outdoor relief) 40,858.24

Parkman B. Haven Fund (medical treatment and

care) 75,000.00

Pauline Johnson Memorial Fund 1,000.00

Lizzie R. Kinsman (higher education for boys) 1,500.00

Maria Kemble Oliver Fund (concert tickets) . . . 22,983.25

Prescott Fund (education teachers and others) 32,530.71

Elizabeth P. Putnam (higher education) 1,532.22

Edith C. Reichardt Memorial Fund (tuition of

needy students) 1,500.00

Richard M. Saltonstall (use of Trustees) 4,596.63

A. Shuman Clothing Fund 1,532.22

Lenna D. Swinerton (needy girls) 701.36

Carl H. Wadell Memorial Fund (for a prize in

physical education) 500.00

$164,713.83

112,774.11

427,955.21
$705,443.15

Endowments — Income unrestricted:

Varnum Fund 209,341.99

Tompkins Fund $1,228,939.60

136th Annual Report

Permanent — School:

William Baines ....

George Baird Fund .

Charlotte Billings
Fund

Ralph W. Blackmer

Frank W. Boles

Stoddard, Capen
Fund

Jennie M. Colby, in
memory of

Ella Newman Curtis
Fund

Henry D. and Edith
M. Davidson Fund

Elizabeth P. Douglas

Alfred W. Elson . . .

Stephen Fairbanks . .

David H. Fanning . .

Ferris Fund

Helen Osborne Gary

Harris Fund

(general purposes)

Harriet S. Hazeltine
Fund

Georgia Houston . . .

Benjamin Humphrey

Gertrude B.

Hutchings

Prentiss M. Kent . . .

Alice G. and Samuel
G. King, in mem-
ory of

Adelaide C. Klous
Fund

Sir Charles W. Lind-
say

Charles H. Mason . .

Kate M. Morse Fund

Albert A. Morton
Memorial Fund . .

Horace A. Moses
Fund

Danobello Nazareno

General — School (Continued)

Jonathan E. Pecker
Richard Perkins ....

_ *J"~f Henry L. Pierce

12,895.21 Mrs MariHa L. Pitts,

in memory of ...

40,507.00 Frederick W. Pres-

2,000.00 cott endowment . .

76,329.02 Helen Robinson, in

memory of

13,770.00 Frank Davison Rust

Memorial

100.00 Ella Adams Sawyer .

Samuel E. Sawyer . .

2,000.00 Margaret A. Simpson

Caroline A. Slack . .

25,020.00 Charles Frederick

1.323.55 Smith Fund

40.259.60 Timothy Smith ....
10,000.00 Mary Lowell Stone

5.010.56 Fumi

12.215.61 Joseph E. Stott ....
10,000.00 Mary Thatcher

George W. Thym
53,333.00 Fund

Alfred T. Turner . . .

5,000.00 Thomas Upham Fund

17,858.44 Levina B. Urbino . .

25,000.00 Mabel G. Warren . .

Vaughn Fund

5,000.00 Ann White Vose

2,500.00 Francis Knowles

Warren

Charles L. Young . .
8,000.00

7,560.87

9,008.93
5,770.80
5,000.00

35,000.00

250,000.00
8,000.00

Add:

Distributions of
Surplus:
August 31,
1947 . . .
August 31,
1963 ...

950.00
20,000.00
20,000.00

5,000.00

25,338.95

7,550.00

4,000.00
38,500.00

2,174.77

968.57

10,000.00

8,663.00
2,000.00

4,000.00
7,300.00
1,000.00

5,054.66

1,000.00

4,950.00

500.00

17,080.91

10,553.50

12,994.00

10,000.00
5,000.00

$913,056.91

8,870.34

288,238.17

$1,210,165.42

Permanent — Kindergarten:

Mary D. Balfour
Fund 5,692.47

William Leonard Ben-
edict, Jr., Memo-
rial 1,000.00

Samuel A. Borden . . 4,675.00

A.A.C., in Memoriam 500.00

Helen G. Coburn . . 9,980.10

Charles Wells Cook 5,000.00
M. Jane Wellington

Danforth Fund .. 10,000.00

Caroline T. Downes 12,950.00
Charles Draper

Fund 23,934.13

Perkins School for the Blind

Eliza J. Bell Draper

Fund

Helen Atkins Ed-

mands Memorial .
George R. Emerson

Mary Eveleth

Eugenia F. Farn-

ham

Susan W. Farwell . .

John Foster

The Luther and

Mary Gilbert

Fund

Albert Glover

Martha R. Hunt . . .
Mrs. Jerome Jones

Fund

Charles Larned ....
Elisha T. Loring . . .
George F. Parkman .
Catherine P. Perkins

Edith Rotch

Frank Davison Rust

Memorial

Caroline O. Seabury

General — School (Continued)

Phoebe Hill Simpson
1,500.00 Fund

Eliza Sturgis Fund .
5,000.00 Abby K. Sweetser . .
5 000.00 Hannah R. Sweetser

i,'ooo.oo Fund ••.•••:•••

Mrs. Harriet Taber

1 015 00 Fund

'^on'nn Levina B. Urbino . .

5 000 00 Tbo May Rosevar
5,000.00 white Fund

8,541.77

1,000.00

10,000.00

9,935.95
5,000.00
5,000.00
3,500.00
10,000.00
10,000.00

15,600.00
1,000.00

Add:

Distributions of
Surplus:

August 31,
1947 ...
August 31,
1963 ...

3,446.11
21,729.52
25,000.00

5,000.00

622.81
500.00

500.00

$ 229,122.86

85,210.31

157,166.58

$ 471,499.75

$3,119,946.76

Funds functioning as endowments — Income restricted for:

Deaf -Blind

Robert C. Billings $ 6,128.86

Deaf-Blind Fund 678,551.73

Grace M. & Seymour B. Willett Family Scholar-
ship Fund 7,128.57

Kindergarten

Dr. Ruey B. Stevens Charity Fund 1 1,313.50

Lucy H. Stratton (Anagnos Cottage) 14,256.93

Other

Charles S. Adams (Christmas Fund) 306.05

Mary Alice Butler (for reading matter for the

blind) 6,062.73

Samuel P. Hayes Memorial Prize Fund 750.00

Annie Sullivan Memorial Fund (research and

Fellowships for Deaf-Blind) 59,605.35

Chan Poh Lin Fund 404.67

Dr. Reginald H. Fitz Memorial Prize Fund 750.00

John Kulesza Memorial Fund (for Industrial Arts) 6,500.00

Julia E. Turner (education of worthy needy) . . . 9,759.51

$691,809.16

$ 25,570.43

$ 84,138.31

$801,517.90

136th Annual Report

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Elsie Bourland Abbot $ 25,000.00

J. Putnam Bradlee .

294,162.53

Katherine F. Albert 295.47

Charlotte A. Brad-

Elizabeth B. Allen .

500.00
1,000.00

street

23,273.49

Frank G. Allen . . .

Ellen F. Bragg

8,006.68

Nora Ambrose,

200.00

in memory of . . .

300.00

Lucy S. Brewer ....

10,215.36

Isabel Anderson . .

66,500.00

Florence N. Bridg-

James H. Anderson

28,366.17

man

500.00

Charlotte H.

Ethel M. Brien

53,969.30

Andrews

22,669.87

J. Edward Brown . .

100,000.00

Fanny C. Appleton

2,000.00

Susan N. Brown . . .

500.00

James R. Archibald

3,000.00

Walter S. Brutton . .

1,508.00

Margaret Sears

Joseph D. Buckley .

55,611.51

10,000.00

Alice E. E. Buff

100.00

Mary Louise Aull .

262,519.52

Mabel E. Bulloch . .

2,000.00

Ellen S. Bacon ....

5,000.00

Malvina M. Bunker

13,393.93

Elizabeth B. Bailey

3,000.00

Norma M. Burchell .

100.00

Eleanor J. W. Bake

r 2,500.00

Maria A. Burnham .

10,000.00

Alice H. Baldwin .

5,000.00

T. O. H. P. Burnham

5,000.00

Calvin W. Barker .

1,859.32

Abbie Y. Burr

200.00

Lucy B. Barker,

Annie E. Caldwell . .

5,236.30

in memory of . .

5,953.21

Emma C. Campbell .

1,000.00

Charles F. Barrows

200.00

3,412.01

Marianne R.

Elizabeth Hobart

Bartholomew . . .

21,462.95

Carter

7,710.83

Francis Bartlett . . .

2,500.00

Ellen G. Cary

50,000.00

Elizabeth Howard

Katherine F. Casey .

100.00

Bartol

5,000.00

Edward F. Cate ....

5,000.00

Mary Bartol

300.00

Robert R. Centro,

Thompson Baxter .

322.50

in memory of ....

10,000.00

Clara G. Beal

1,000.00

Fanny Channing . . .

2,000.00

Nellie F. Sprague

Emily D. Chapman .

1,000.00

Bearse

1,000.00

Mary F. Cheever . . .
Ida May Chickering

200.00

Herman J. Becker .

4,696.76

1,052.03

Samuel Benjamin .

250.00

Alice M. Clement . .

39,904.87

Eleanor Berg

500.00

Mary A. Clement . .

767.96

Eleanor Bigelow . .

192.54

Alice I. Cobb

2,000.00

Robert C. Billings .

25,000.00

Laura Cohen

87.00

Helen M. Binney . . .

3,823.41

Ann Eliza Colburn .

5,000.00

Helen Bisbee

2,000.00

Walter H. Collins . .

5,000.00

George Nixon Blacl

i 10,000.00

Susan J. Conant ....

500.00

Elizabeth M. Black-

The Frances W. and

burn

10,000.00

William J. Connell

Susan A. Blaisdell . .

5,832.66

Memorial Fund . .

1,037.50

Dehon Blake

500.00

Jane Conrad

2,000.00

S. Malcolm Blanch

1,000.00

William A. Copeland

1,000.00

Mary Blight

7,220.99

Augusta E. Corbin .

20,644.82

William T. Bolton . .

555.22

Sandra Countway . .

5,000.00

Nellie F. Bonney . . .

3,886.54

Nellie W. Cowles . .

3,088.03

Betsey J. Bowles . . .

9,798.75

Jennie L. Cox

1,948.60

George W. Boyd . .

5,000.00

Louise F. Crane . . .

5,000.00

Caroline E. Boyder

i 1,930.39

W. Murray Crane . .

10,000.00

Mary I. Brackett . . .

5,263.33

Florence C. Cross . .

35.00

Perkins School for the Blind

General — School (Continued)

jnds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Harriet Otis Craft . .

6,000.00

Fidelity Managemenl

David Cummings . .

7,723.07

& Res. Co

10,660.00

436,325.29

Edward A. Fille-

Arthur B. Curtis . . .

1,722.25

500.00

Charlotte A. Cushing

8,669.09

Annie M. Findley .

500.00

Chastine L. Cushing

500.00

Anna G. Fish ....

10,583.25

Edith Talbot Cutler

1,000.00

Lucy A. Fisher . . .

500.00

Antoinette Da Prato

2,000.00

Thomas B. Fitz-

George E. Daley . . .

1,541.72

patrick

1,000.00

I. W. Danforth

2,500.00

Alice Flanagan . . .

20,970.19

Kate Kimball Dan-

Walter S. Flint . . .

15,000.00

forth

250.00
1,000.00

John Forrest

Ann Maria Fosdick

1,000.00

Charles L. Davis . . .

14,333.79

Charlotte E. Davis .

2,000.00

Nancy H. Fosdick .

3,937.21

Etta S. Davis

8,027.87

Sarah E. Foster . . .

200.00

Susan L. Davis ....

1,500.00

Elwyn Fowler ....

5,232.75

Edith B. Davison . .

56,207.10

Edith M. Fox

120,000.00

Mabel E. Day

10,000.00

Mary Helen Freeman 1,000.00

Dorothy Dillon

Cornelia Ann French 10,000.00

1,000.00

Martha A. French .

164.40

Lilla B. Dearborn . .

200.00

Camille Elizabeth

Eda E. Delano

500.00

Freund

1,000.00

Joseph Descalzo . . .

1,000.00

Sophie M. Fried-

Elsie C. Disher ....

163,250.07

1,000.00

John H. Dix

10,000.00

Ephraim L. Frothing

Mary Frances Drown

21,857.25

ham

1,825.97

Alice J. H. Dwinell .

200.00

Anna D. Fry

31,904.76

Mary T. Dwyer

333.08

Jessie P. Fuller . . .

200.00

Amelia G. Dyer ....

40,043.00

Mary A. Furbush .

30,372.08

8,375.18

Thomas Gaffield . .

6,685.38

1,669.50

Mabel Knowles

Mary Agnes Eaton .

3,660.91

5,000.00

Mary E. Eaton ....

5,000.00

Lillian R. Garside .

500.00

Lillian Gay

68,122.84

Delia Eccles

402.28

Edward L. Geary .

2,000.00

David J. Edwards . .

500.00

Albert Glover ....

1,000.00

Ruth Eldridge , , ,

61,679.74

Joseph B. Glover . .

5,000.00

Ann J. Ellis

1,023.00

Marie M. Goggin .

2,864.55

A. Silver Emerson . .

500.00

Benjamin H. Gold-

John V. Emerson . .

1,849.28

38,899.68

Martha S. Ensign . .

2,505.48

Emma F. Goldsmith 500.00

Orient H. Eustis . . .

500.00

Charlotte L. Good-

Nellie H. Evans ....

36,123.40

now

6,471.23

In Memoriam

Fred M. Goodwin .

1,122.55

Edward H. Evans

Ellis Gordon

150.00

& Harlan Graham

Samuel Gordon . . .

500.00

Antoinette Fagan . .

250.00

Annie M. Gorrie . .

3,994.73

Eugene Fanning . . .

50.00

Maria W. Goulding

2,332.48

Sarah M. Farr

64,247.43

Charles G. Green .

45,837.70

Annie L. Ferguson .

500.00

Amelia Greenbaum

500.00

Mortimer C. Ferris

Mary Louise Green-

1,000.00

leaf

199,189.94

136th Annual Report

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Imogene C. Gregory 450.00

Alfred G. Hosmer .

229.28

Elizabeth Grierson

10,000.00

Margaret J. Houri-

Sarah Hatch Grover 10,000.00

han

200.00

Amalie F. L. Grutz-

Gertrude H. Howard

5,000.00

back

10,000.00

William G. Howard

5,000.00

Louis A. Grutzbach 33,000.00

Lillian E. Hunter . .

100.00

William Guggenheim 50.00

Charles S. Hutchin-

Stephen Hadley . . .

7,794.26

son

2,156.00

Ella G. Haig

1,750.00

Minnie Hecht Hyne-

Henry Hale

1,000.00

man

2,000.00

Ellen Page Hall . . .

10,037.78

Katharine C. Ireson

52,037.62

Olive N. Hall

1,000.00

Edwin E. Jack

13,497.77

George W. Hamblet 25,000.00

Annie H. Jackson . .

12,622.19

Ellen Hammond . .

1,000.00

Evart W. Jackson . .

5,000.00

Norah H. Harding

10,756.48

Hattie Jacobs

10,696.68

George H. Hardy .

26,997.86

Lewis B. Jefferds, in

Albert Harrison . . .

100.00

memory of Eva M.

Margaret A. Harty

5,000.00

Jefferds

5,178.20

E. M. and A. G.

Charles T. Jenkins .

7,625.07

Hartwell

Helen P. Harvison

3,000.00
1,000.00

William S. Jenney, in

Grace D. Hatch . .

83,003.85

memory of

500.00

Hattie S. Hathaway

500.00

Charlotte Johnson . .

525.00

Jerusha F. Hatha-

Edwin C. Johnson . .

1,000.00

5,000.00

Mabel S. Jordan . . .

500.00

Lucy Hathaway . . .

4,577.00

Annie G. Joyce ....

250.00

Edward J. and

Celia Kaplan

100.00

Georgia M.

Eliza J. Kean

59,209.91

Hathorne Fund .

50,017.68

James C. Keith ....

5,000.00

William Hayball . .

1,788.40

Marie L. Keith ....

2,000.00

Charles H. Hayden

34,893.41

Rose J. Kelly

292.26

John C. Haynes . . .

1,000.00

Marie Jose Kellogg .

312,938.74

Gertrude R. Hazen

1,134.73

Harriet B. Kempster

1,144.13

Mary E. T. Healy .

200.00

Ernestine M. Kettle

22,981.31

Annie T. Hedman .

500.00

B. Marion Keyes . . .

6,350.00

Hattie H. Henry . .

1,000.00

Lulu S. Kimball . . .

10,000.00

Alice Cushing Her

Florence I. King . . .

3,000.00

sey, in memory o

E 3,000.00

Grace W. King ....

100.00

Joseph H. Heywooc

i 500.00

Lloyd A. Kirkpatrick

5,000.00

Alfred S. He wins . .

40,000.00

Harvey L. Kline . . .

2,000.00

Frances O. Higgins

2,000.00

Augusta Klous

5,000.00

Francis L. Higginsor

L 5,004.73

Charles H. Knott . .

500.00

3,893.37

Lydia F. Knowles . .

50.00

Stanley B. Hildreth .

5,000.00

Davis Krokyn

100.00

Annette S. Hill

23,500.00

Emelda Quesnal La

George A. Hill

100.00

Croix

1,000.00

Ada F. Hislop

25.00

Catherine M. Lam-

Lila M. Hodges ....

1,000.00

son

6,000.00

Margaret A. Holden

3,708.32

James J. Lamson . . .

750.00

Theodore C. Hoi-

Susan M. Lane ....

815.71

3,016.00

Isabel H. Lang ....

47,457.65

Bernard J. Holmberg

2,000.00

Grace Gordon Lati-

Mabel A. Home . . .

1.000.00

mer

5,000.00

Perkins School for the Blind

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Elizabeth W. Lea(

2,638.71

Jane Leader

3,544.31

Leo H. Leary

1,000.00

Luella K. Leavitt .

1,011.67

Lewis A. Leland . .

415.67

Ruth W. Levi

500.00

Benjamin Levy . . .

500.00

E. E. Linderholm .

505.56

William Litchfield .

7,951.48

Harvey B. Locke . .

500.00

Mary T. Locke . . .

8,361.89

Gertrude P. Lord . .

2,000.00

Margarita F. Lord,

in memory of

Margaret Leonar

d 3,000.00

Hannah W. Loring

9,500.00

Marjorie C. Loring

5,000.00

Jennie Louis

1,132.79

Israel Louis

1,993.71

William E. Lowry .

5,000.00

Celia E. Lugene . . .

300.00

Adolph S. Lundin .

100.00

Susan B. Lyman . .

4,809.78

Anna P. MacKay .

2,250.00

Agnes J. MacNevin

78,968.67

Alice B. Madison .

1,000.00

Guy W. Mailman .

1,000.00

Susan B. Mailman .

1,000.00

Frank G. Maliff . . .

7,500.00

Mary Ella Mann . .

250.00

Elizabeth M. Mann

1,301.10

Blanche Osgood

Mansfield

1,000.00

Harry Marcus . . .

500.00

Annie B. Marion .

8,745.66

Antonio Marotta .

200.00

Rebecca Marks . . .

2,640.40

Stephen W. Marsto

a 5,000.00

Elizabeth S. Martin

1,000.00

5,000.00

William H. Maynard

22,821.56

Maynard R. McCan

dless

1,000.00

Patrick H. McCartrr

V 7,692.23

James C. McDonal

i 1,000.00

Cora Mclntire ....

6,862.50

Serafina Lena Meo

2,176.10

Charles Merriam . .

1,000.00

Florence B. Merrill

1,000.00

Franklin S. Merritt

5,667.02

Lottie M. Merry, in

memory of Minnie

D. Merry

500.00

Mary H. Miller ....

1,512.50

Pauline W. Miller . .

985.97

Olga E. Monks ....

2,500.00

George Montgomery

5,140.00

Martha H. Morss . .

3,000.00

Mertie B. Morton . .

31,563.33

Jennie Moschello . . .

2,000.00

Louise C. Moulton

Bequest

7,891.65

Mary A. Muldoon . .

100.00

Rosa A. Mulrey ....

1,000.00

Adelaide F. Munsey

1,000.00

Mary T. Murphy . . .

10,000.00

Sarah Ella Murray .

8,000.00

Marie F. J. Nash . . .

77,500.00

Sarah M. Nathan . .

500.00

Henry Nemrow ....

100.00

92,091.80

Jeanne Nielson ....

500.00

70,465.79

Joseph F. Noera . . .

2,000.00

Leonard L. Nones . .

395.82

Charles L. Noonan .

1,000.00

Henry P. Norris . . .

35,219.74

Annie Anthony Noyes

100.00

Mary B. Noyes ....

915.00

Richard W. Nutter .

2,000.00

Ella Nye

50.00

Mildred S. Nye

15,000.00

Harold L. Olmstead

11,401.56

S. Louise Ellis Orr .

13,500.00

William F. O'Reilly

1,000.00

Emily C. O'Shea . . .

1,000.00

Sarah Irene Parker .

699.41

William Prentiss

2,500.00

George Francis Park-

man

50,000.00

Grace Parkman ....

5,383.78

Fanny W. Paulding .

110,492.71

Philip G. Peabody . .

1,200.00

Elizabeth W.

2,000.00

Ellen F. Perkins . . .

2,500.00

Vera L. Perry

2,000.00

Edward D. Peters . .

500.00

Clara F. Pierce ....

2,005.56

Clara J. Pitts

2,000.00

Anna M. Place ....

13,000.00

George F. Poland . .

75.00

136th Annual Report

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Elizabeth B. Porter .

5,449.50

Amy M. Sacker ....

1,000.00

George M. Porter . .

20,828.61

Emily E, St. John . .

5,015.00

Marion S. Potter . . .

25,000.00

Eleanor Saltonstall .

15,000.00

Sarah E. Pratt

2,988.34

Florence Sanborn . .

4,295.89

Sarah S. Pratt

5,000.00

Virginia A. Sander-

Mary C. Priest

Aaron Pritzker ....

14,929.35
56.51

son

48,508.61

Alfred Scaramelli . .

761.82

Francis I. Proctor . .

10,000.00

Joseph Schofield . . .

2,500.00

137,932.21

Louis H. Scholosberg

100.24

Rose Rabinowitz . . .

50.00

Louise H. Schubeler

4,438.32

Barbara Caroline

George H. Schultz . .

2,052.68

Ralph

28,437.42

Sarah E. Seabury . .

3,116.01

Emma Dora Ray . . .

50,696.73

Edward O. Seacomb

1,000.00

Grace E. Reed

5,054.25

Ethel G. Sears ....

1,000.00

Carrie P. Reid

679.51

Minnie S. Seaver . . .

10,864.54

Edwina F. Resor . . .

1,000.00

Jessie S. Seavey ....

260.76

Leonard H.

Ida Seldov

500.00

1,012.77

Richard Black Sewell

25,000.00

Mabelle H. Rice . . .

3,750.00

Burt Harold Shaw . .

200.00

Alice M. A. Richard-

Benjamin H. Shel-

son

25,000.00

ton

19,323.49

Matilda B. Richard-

Charles F. Sherman

2,000.00

son

300.00

Robert F. Shurtleff .
Carrie Etta Silloway

1,432.94

William L. Rich-

5,429.88

ardson

50,000.00

John Simonds

50.00

Myer Riesman

1,000.00

Marion P. Sinclair .

500.00

Henry P. Robbins . .

7,464.75

Anne Morton Smith

5,000.00

Katherine F. Robbins

5,126.35

Arthur A. Smith . . .

10,000.00

5,000.00

Charles L. Smith . . .

5,000.00

Anne Augusta Robin-

Ellen V. Smith

25,000.00

son

212.20
500.00

Esther W. Smith . . .
Sarah F. Smith

5,000.00

Julia M. Roby

3,000.00

Robert Rodgers ....

100.00

Ellis L. Snider

250.00

Eliza Findlay Rogers

5,000.00

The Maria Spear Be-

Helen K. Rogers . . .

28,179.08

quest for the Blind

15,000.00

John Roome

5,787.67

Henry F. Spencer . .

1, 009.00

Eda C. Rosengren . .

758.15

Martha Sperber ....

50.00

Morris Rosenthal . . .

1,000.00

Charlotte S. Sprague

13,229.23

Barbara S. Ross ....

2,740.35

Thomas Sprague . . .

1,000.00

Bernard J. Rothwell

2,010.52

Alice M. Stanley . . .

100.00

Henrietta Goodrich

Adella E. Stannard .

1,631.78

Rothwell

500.00

Louie R. Stanwood .

1,000.00

Joseph Rowe

12,921.61

Cora N. T. Stearns .

53,739.10

Benjamin Rudnick .

500.00

Lucy B. Stearns ....

6,770.79

Mary L. Ruggles . . .

3,000.00

Eugenia A. Stein . . .

1,000.00

Mary Frances Russ .

1,128.44

Hattie V. Stephenson

1,394.00

Elizabeth H. Russell

500.00

Frank W. Sticher . .

18,943.51

Josephine Russell . .

500.00

Henry A. Stickney .

2,410.00

Marian Russell ....

5,000.00

Lucretia J. Stoehr . .

2,967.26

2,640.00

Joseph C. Storey . . .

122,531.58

William H. Ryan . . .

8,023.48

Edward C. Sullivan .

2,000.00

Perkins School for the Blind

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Sophronia S. Sunbury
Shepard H. Swain

Fund

Edward Swan

Emma B. Swasey . .

Mary F. Swift

Frank R. Tackaberry
William Taylor ....
Mary DeWolf

Thacher

Minnie L. Thayer . .
Marian M. Thomas .
Joanna C. Thompson
Mabel E. Thompson
Minnie B. Thompson
Agnes F. Thurston
Anna B. Tibbitts .
Elizabeth Tilton .
William Timlin . .
Alice W. Torrey .
Edith M. Tourtellot
Evelyn Wyman Towle
Stephen G. Train . .

Sarah E. Trott

John L. Tucker ....
Mary Wilson Tucker
Jennie A. Tuttle . . .
George B. Upton . . .
Maude C. Valentine
Grace C. Van Nor-

den

Charles A. Vaille
Bessie G. Veazie .
Bernard T. Vierich
Harold L. Vinal .
Abbie T. Vose . . .
Nancies S. Vose .
Horace W. Wadleigh
Joseph K. Wait .
Amelia L. Walker
Harriet Ware . . .
Allena F. Warren
Elizabeth M. Warren
William H. Warren
Frank Washington
Sarah A. Watson .
Eleanore C. Webb
Charles F. Webber

Leo Weidhorn

Mary E. Welch . . ,
Mary Ann P. Weld

365.19

1,000.00
16,871.98
2,250.00
1,391.00
2,500.00
893.36

3,000.00
1,000.00
2,000.00
1,000.00
8,738.61
5,821.90

65,566.62
2,000.00
3,000.00
7,820.00

71,560.00
1,171.92
7,020.00

20,000.00
2,885.86

57,620.80
481.11

27,809.29

10,000.00
1,884.22

50,138.57

1,990.00

500.00

593.06

500.00

1,000.00

300.00

2,000.00

3,000.00

1,000.00

1,952.02

2,828.33

1,000.00

4,073.17

13,813.78

10,000.00

5,314.95

30,915.93

5,000.00

200.00

2,000.00

Henry Wentworth . .
Oliver M. Wentworth
Cordelia H. Wheeler
Opha J. Wheeler . . .
Eliza Orne White . .
Ella Tredich White .
Porter W. Whitmarsh
Ruth E. Whitmarsh .
Sarah L. Whitmarsh
Samuel Brenton

Whitney

Martha A. Wilcomb
Alice F. Willard . . .
Adelia C. Williams .
Fred H. Williams . .
Judson Williams . . .
Clara R. Williamson
Alice M. Wilson . . .
Lucy B. Wilson, in

memory of

Mehitable C. C. Wil-

2,000.00
300.00
800.00

3,852.74
4,621.42
1,000.00
88,247.05
1,000.00
2,000.00

1,000.00
5,000.00
3,272.18
1,000.00
1,755.74
3,628.46
1,000.00
11,526.49

800.00

543.75
1,000.00

125.00

9,259.38

6,427.76

20,000.00

8,000.00

500.00

1,000.00

1.00

$6,452,301.51

Add:

Distributions of Sur-
plus:

August 31,

1947 37,159.87

August 31,

1963 1,360,789.15

son

Nettie R. Winn . . .
Samuel C. Wiswall
Minnie S. Woolfe .
Esther F. Wright . .
Thomas T. Wyman
Fanny Young

Lyde Young

William B. Young
Suspense

$7,850,250.53

Deduct:
Net transfer to Plant

Capital 3,205,795.39

$4,644,455.14

136th Annual Report

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

General — Kindergarten:

150.00

Margaret K. Cum-

Lydia A. Allen . . .

748.38

mings

5,000.00
1,000.00

Michael Anagnos .

3,000.00

James H. Danford . .

Harriet T. Andrew

5,000.00

Catherine L. Don-

Martha B. Angell .

34,370.83

nison Memorial . .

1,000.00

Mrs. William Apple

George H. Downes .

3,000.00

ton

18,000.00

Amanda E. Dwight .

6,295.00

Elizabeth H. Bailey

500.00

Lucy A. Dwight . . .

4,000.00

Eleanor J. W. Bake

r 2,500.00

Harriet H. Ellis

6,074.79

Ellen M. Baker . . .

13,053.48

Mary E. Emerson . .

1,000.00

Mary D. Barrett . .

1,000.00

Mary B. Emmens . .

1,000.00

Nancy Bartlett Fun(

1 500.00

James E. English . .

29,414.71

Sidney Bartlett ...

10,000.00

Arthur F. Estabrook

2,000.00

Emma M. Bass . . .

1,000.00

Ida F. Estabrook . . .

2,114.00

Sarah E. J. Baxter .

51,847.49

Orient H. Eustis . . .

500.00

Thompson Baxter .

322.50

Annie Louise Fay

Robert C. Billings .

10,000.00

1,000.00

Harriet M. Bowmai

l 1,013.22

Sarah M. Fay

15,000.00

Sarah Bradford . . .

100.00

Charlotte M. Fiske .

5,000.00

Helen C. Bradlee .

140,000.00

Ann Maria Fosdick .

14,333.79

J. Putnam Bradlee

194,162.53

Nancy H. Fosdick . .

3,937.21

Charlotte A. Brad-

Fanny Foster

378,087.49

street

13,576.19

Margaret W. Froth-

Ellen F. Bragg

8,006.69

ingham

500.00

Lucy S. Brewer . . .

7,811.56

J. Franklin Gammell

6,657.38

Sarah Crocker

Elizabeth W. Gay . .

7,931.00

Brewster

500.00

Ellen M. Gifford ..

5,000.00

Ellen Sophia Browi

l 1,000.00

Joseph B. Glover . .

5,000.00

Mary E. Brown . . .

1,000.00

Mathilda Goddard .

300.00

Rebecca W. Brown

8,977.55

1,000.00

Harriet Tilden

Maria L. Gray ....

200.00

Browne

2,000.00

Amelia Greenbaum .
Caroline H. Greene

1,000.00

Katherine E. Bul-

1,000.00

lard

2,500.00
5,000.00

Mary L. Greenleaf .
Josephine S. Hall . .

5,157.75

Annie E. Caldwell

3,000.00

John W. Carter

500.00

Allen Haskell

500.00

Kate H. Chamber-

Mary J. Haskell . . .

8,687.65

lin

5,715.07
400.00

Jennie B. Hatch

Olive E. Hayden . . .

1,000.00

Adeline M. Chapin .

4,622.45

Benjamin P. Chenej

5,000.00

Thomas G. Hiler . . .

3,000.00

Fanny C. Coburn . .

424.06

Jane H. Hodges ....

300.00

Charles H. Colburi

I 1,000.00

Margaret A. Holden

2,360.67

Helen Collamore . .

5,000.00

Marion D. Hollings-

Anna T. Coolidge . .

53,873.38

worth

1,000.00

Mrs. Edward Cordis

300.00

Frances H. Hood . .

100.00

Sarah Silver Cox . .

5,000.00

Abigail W. Howe . .

1,000.00

Lavonne E. Crane . .

3,365.21

Ezra S. Jackson ....

688.67

Susan T. Crosby . . .

100.00

Caroline E. Jenks . .

100.00

Perkins School for the Blind

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Caroline M. Jones . .

5,000.00

952.38

Ellen M. Jones ....

500.00

William Ward

Hannah W. Kendall

2,515.38

7,507.86

Cara P. Kimball . . .

10,000.00

Jane Roberts

93,025.55

David P. Kimball . .

5,000.00

John M. Rodocana-

Moses Kimball ....

1,000.00
700.00

1,000.00

chi

2,250.00

500.00

2,000.00

Ann E. Lambert. . . .
Jean Munroe Le
Brun

Dorothy Roffe

Clara Bates Rogers .
Rhoda Rogers

Willard H. Leth-

500.00

bridge

28,179.41
1,000.00

Mrs. Benjamin S.
Rotch

Frances E. Lily ....

8,500.00

William Litchfield . .

6,800.00

Rebecca Salisbury . .

200.00

Mary Ann Locke . .

5,874.00

Henry Saltonstall . .

3,222.34

Robert W. Lord . . .

1,000.00

J. Pauline Schenkl.

10,955.26

Lewis W. Lothrop . .

1,000.00

Joseph Schofield . . .

3,000.00

Sophia N. Low ....

1,000.00

Eliza B. Seymour . .

5,000.00

Thomas Mack

1,000.00

John W. Shapleigh .

1,000.00

Augustus D. Manson

8,134.00

Esther W. Smith . . .

5,000.00

Calanthe E. Marsh .

18,840.33

Annie E. Snow ....

9,903.27

Sarah L. Marsh ....

1,000.00

Adelaide Standish . .

5,000.00

Waldo Marsh

500.00

Elizabeth G. Stuart .

2,000.00

Annie B. Mathews

45,086.40

Elizabeth B. Swan . .

13,814.46

Rebecca S. Melvin .

23,545.55

Benjamin Sweetzer .

2,000.00

Georgina Merrill . .

4,773.80

Sarah W. Taber

1,000.00

Ira I. Moore

1,349.09

Mary L. Talbot

630.00

Louise Chandler Moul-

Ann Tower Tarbell .

8,128.85

ton

10,000.00

Cornelia V. R.

Maria Murdock ....

1,000.00

10,000.00

Mary Abbie Newell

5,903.65

Delia D. Thorndike

5,000.00

Frances M. Osgood .

1,000.00

Elizabeth L. Tilton .

300.00

Margaret S. Otis . . .

1,000.00

Betsey B. Tolman * .

500.00

Jeannie Warren

Transcript, ten dollar

Paine

1,000.00
50.00

Mary Wilson Tucker

5,666.95

Anna R. Palfrey . . .

481.11

Sarah Irene Parker .

699.41

Mary B. Turner . . .

7,582.90

Anna Q. T. Parsons

4,019.52

Royal W. Turner . .

24,089.02

Helen M. Parsons . .

500.00

Minnie H. Underhill

1,000.00

Caroline E. Peabody

3,403.74

Charles A. Vialle . .

1,990.00

Elward D. Peters . . .

500.00

Rebecca P.

Henry M. Peyser . .

5,678.25

Wainwright

1,000.00

Mary J. Phipps ....

2,000.00

George W. Wales

5,000.00

Caroline S. Pickman

1,000.00

Maria W. Wales

20,000.00

Katherine C. Pierce

5,000.00

Gertrude A. Walker .

178.97

Helen A. Porter . . .

50.00

Mrs. Charles E. Ware

4,000.00

Sarah E. Potter En-

Rebecca B. Warren . .

5,000.00

dowment Fund . .

425,014.44

Jennie A. (Shaw)

Francis L. Pratt ....

100.00

Waterhouse

565.84

Mary S. C. Reed . . .

5,000.00

Mary H. Watson ....

100.00

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General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Ralph Watson
Memorial

Isabella M. Weld .

Mary Whitehead .

Evelyn A. Whitney
Fund

Julia A. Whitney .

Sarah W. Whitney

Betsey S. Wilder . .

Hannah Catherine
Wiley

Mary W. Wiley . . .

Martha A. Willcomb

Mary Williams ....

Almira F. Winslow

Eliza C. Winthrop .

Harriet F. Wolcott .

237.92

14,795.06

666.00

4,992.10
100.00
150.62
500.00

200.00
150.00
5,000.00
5,000.00
306.80
5,041.67
5,532.00

$2,127,114.60

Add:

Distributions of Sur-
plus:

August 31, 1947 529,435.57
August 31, 1963 1,010,902.74

$3,667,452.91

Deduct:
Transfer to Plant
Capital at August
31, 1947 634,744.69

$3,032,708.22
$7,677,163.36

HOWE MEMORIAL PRESS FUNDS

Income restricted:

Adeline A. Douglas (printing raised characters) $ 5,000.00

Harriet S. Hazeltine (printing raised characters) .... 2,000.00

Thomas D. Roche (publication non-sectarian books) 1,883.84

J. Pauline Schenkl (printing) 10,955.26

Deacon Stephen Stickney Fund

(books, maps and charts) 5,000.00

Income unrestricted:

Beggs Fund $ 1,000.00

Joseph H. Center 1,000.00

C. W. Hagerty 295.56

Augusta Wells 10,290.00

$24,839.10

12,585.56

$37,424.66

Perkins School for the Blind 89

THE PERKINS ENDOWMENT

A visitor from overseas, who had been making an extensive tour of
schools for blind children in Europe and the United States, asked us,
"Which one of your truly remarkable assets do you consider the most
important?"

This is a good question to evade. Every link in our chain of services is
necessary for our program and each one depends on the others. All of our
unusually fine buildings are needed for our various activities; our specialized
teacher-training courses provide us with the men and women we need; our
program of tests and measurements gives us information about our pupils
without which we would flounder wildly; our Social Service Department
helps to cement home and School; our excellent library. The list could be
expanded considerably.

All these varied items were, when we acquired them, exploratory m
nature. Our history is full of "firsts" — first deaf-blind success, first graduate
to college, first kindergarten, first teacher-training course, first in physio-
therapy and speech correction.

One asset not listed above has made these pioneering endeavors possible.
This is our endowment.

Every new departure in education requires money that has not been as-
signed to other purposes. Usually it is a small sum to get a new plan into
operation. As we look back over our records we can see how little it took
Dr. Howe to teach Laura Bridgman. The first of our kindergarten cottages
in Jamaica Plain cost Michael Anagnos a relatively small sum. Dr. Allen
began to train teachers at virtually no cost to the School at all.

So it has been with each forward step. On each occasion the extra-
budgetary funds were available. No appropriations committee had to be
persuaded that what was considered good enough for their generation was
not good enough for the next. Our Trustees, who since our founding have
invariably welcomed the next step forward, put things into motion each time.

None of these programs has remained small. Our embryo kindergarten
grew apace; our psychological and research activities have expanded many
times; so have our teacher-training courses. The greatest growth has been
in our Deaf-Blind Department which cost over $318,000 during the school
year 1964-1965.

Endowments which are adequate to put a program into effect are rarely
sufficient to keep it going. As with every private school and college that is
keeping abreast — or ahead — of the times, Perkins needs to see its endowment
grow. Through bequests and donations, and through a few Government
grants, we have been able to expand existing services and add new ones as
needed. We are confident that our friends will continue to support us in
ever increasing amounts.

In answering our visitor, we would be compelled to list our substantial
endowment among our most important assets; without it we would have
relatively few others.

90 136th Annual Report

FORM OF BEQUEST

I hereby give, devise and bequeath to the Perkins School for
the Blind, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the sum of dollars

($ ), the same to be applied to the general uses and purposes

of said corporation under the direction of its Board of Trustees; and I
do hereby direct that the receipt of the Treasurer for the time being of
said corporation shall be a sufficient discharge to my executors for the
same.

FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATE

I give, devise and bequeath to the Perkins School for the Blind,
a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts, that certain tract of real estate bounded
and described as follows:

(Here describe the real estate accurately)

with full power to sell, mortgage and convey the same free of all trust.

NOTICE

The address of the Treasurer of the corporation is as follows:

RALPH B. WILLIAMS

Fiduciary Trust Co., 10 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass. 02109.

Perkins School for the Blind

OUTLINE OF PERKINS HISTORY

1829 School granted Charter by
Massachusetts Legislature — the
first in America — Dr. John
Fisher mainly responsible.

1832 School opens with Samuel Grid-
ley Howe as Director, using
rooms in his father's home in
downtown Boston.

1833 School moved to home of
Thomas Handasyd Perkins in
Boston.

1837 First embossed books printed.
Laura Bridgman arrived — first
deaf-blind mute in the world
to be educated.

1839 School moved to South Boston
where it remained for seventy-
three years.

1841 Workshop opened (Closed in
1952, being no longer needed).

1842 Charles Dickens visited Per-
kins. In his American Notes
he enthusiastically praised
Howe's work with Laura Bridg-
man.

1876 Michael Anagnos succeeded to
directorship upon Dr. Howe's
death.

1880 Blindiana Library and Museum
established.

1881 Anagnos established Howe Me-
morial Press to emboss braille
books.

1887 Anagnos established the first
kindergarten for the blind, lo-
cated in Jamaica Plain.

1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching
Helen Keller.

1889-93 Helen Keller resides at Per-
kins.

1907 Edward E. Allen succeeds Mr.
Anagnos who died on a visit
to the Balkans.

1908 First Physiotherapist in school
for the blind.

1912 School moves to Watertown
from South Boston and Ja-
maica Plain. Cottage Family
Plan which had been intro-
duced by Dr. Howe now used
throughout the School.

1916 Dr. Allen hires first Home Vis-
itor in a school for the blind.

1920 Samuel P. Hayes begins work
at Perkins resulting in first psy-

chological tests for blind chil-
dren, known as the Hayes-
Binet.

1920 First graduate-level Teacher-
training program established in
cooperation with Harvard Uni-
versity.

1924 First Speech Therapist in school
for the blind hired.

1931 Dr. Gabriel Farrell replaces
Dr. Allen who retired.

1932 Perkins celebrates completion
of first century of service. In-
struction of deaf -blind children
organized into special depart-
ment.

1947 Perkins admitted to member-
ship in New England Associa-
tion of Colleges and Secondary
Schools.

1951 Dr. Farrell retired and was
succeeded by Dr. Edward J.
Waterhouse. First Perkins
Braillers produced, designed by
David Abraham at the Howe
Press.

1952 Department of Psychology and
Guidance established — clinical
psychologist added to staff. Dr.
Gabriel Farrell appointed Di-
rector Emeritus and presided
over First International Con-
ference of Educators of Blind
Youth in Bussum, The Nether-
lands.

1953 Conference of Educators of the
Deaf-Blind at Perkins.

1955 Perkins and Boston University
establish first training pro-
gram for teachers of the deaf-
blind.

1956 Helen Keller dedicates Keller-
Macy Building in honor of her-
self and her Perkins teacher,
Anne Sullivan Macy. This is
the headquarters of the Deaf-
Blind Department.

1957 One hundred and twenty-fifth
anniversary of school opening
celebrated by first showing of
film "The Perkins Story."

1959 Conference on Guidance Pro-
grams for Blind Children at
Perkins.

1960 New Gymnasium built to pro-
vide greater facilities for wres-

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tling, bowling and roller skat-
ing.

1962 Dr. Waterhouse appointed
Chairman of the Executive
Committee at the Third In-
ternational Conference of Ed-
ucators of Blind Youth at
Hanover, Germany. Twenty
thousandth Perkins Brailler
produced.

1962 Perkins re-evaluated and re-ac-
credited by the New England
Association of Secondary
Schools.

1962 Film dealing with the educa-
tion of deaf-blind issued en-

titled "Children of the Silent
Night."
1964 The American Association of
Instructors of the Blind meets
at Perkins.

1966 Together with the Industrial
Home for the Blind, Perkins
celebrates the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of
Anne Sullivan in Watertown,
New York and Washington.
New Research Library dedi-
cated.

1967 International Council of Edu-
cators of Blind Youth meets at
Perkins.

Perkins School for the Blind 93

A COMPLETE PROGRAM FOR DEAF-BLIND CHILDREN

By Edward J. Waterhouse,

Director, Perkins School for the Blind

This paper was read preceding a demonstration by
deaf-blind pupils to the I.C.E.B.Y. August 26, 1967

In planning a program which attempts to meet the needs of deaf -blind
children from birth to adulthood, there are few precedents to follow.
Nowhere in the world to our knowledge are adequate services available.
Even statistics are lacking and agreement is not universal as to
which children should be included in the classification of deaf-blind-
ness. In the United States of America, there is a widespread willingness
to accept a definition adopted by the National Committee for Deaf-Blind
Children. According to this Committee a child should be classified as
deaf -blind if, as a result of his dual handicaps, he cannot benefit from
regular programs for the deaf or the blind. Unless a definition of this
scope is accepted, large groups of children are in danger of falling
between two schools of services: those for the deaf, and those for the
blind. Neither of these have yet developed skills or trained personnel
to handle the special problems caused by a combination of visual and
auditory defects.

THE PRE-SCHOOL CHILD

Not every deaf-blind child was born that way but many were.
Victims of maternal Rubella who are making up an increasing percent-
age of this group have defects which even precede birth. While only a
small percentage of Rubella children are totally blind, or totally deaf,
their defects create barriers between them and their parents and en-
vironment which are serious enough to retard normal growth. Indeed,
if special practices are not adopted during the pre-school years, growth
can be brought to a halt.

The importance of these pre-school years has long been recognized
by educators of deaf children. Various services are available in America
and other countries to parents of deaf infants. The John Tracy Clinic of
Los Angeles, California, has had considerable success with its Home
Study Plan. With the consent and encouragement of Mrs. Spencer Tracy,
this plan is currently being adapted by Miss Nan Robbins of the
Perkins staff for use with deaf-blind children. We hope that by January,

94 136th Annual Report

1968, this material will be available for a pilot study to be made of its
effectiveness.

This is only one step in the right direction. There is need for
Home Visiting on a continuing basis and for the establishment of clinics
where parents can bring their children for short visits to receive help
from experienced personnel. This, in turn, points out the need for
facilities where personnel can be trained. Home visitors with experience
in this special field are very few in number. Perkins has already taken
the first steps to provide these services and train personnel.

EVALUATION OF INFANTS

Almost every deaf-blind infant in America is subjected to some
form of psychological evaluation by the time he is two or three years
old. Often this is attempted by the pediatrician, the ophthalmologist or
the otologist. The average pediatrician encounters very few deaf-blind
children in his career. Nevertheless, when he does he is usually under
some pressure from the parents and he does his best to offer a prognosis.
The same is true of ear and eye specialists. Frequently, their diagnoses
are gravely on the pessimistic side with tragic results.

Psychological evaluations should be carried out by psychologists.
Some progress has been made at Perkins, notably by Mrs. Gertrude
Stenquist, to develop testing techniques for deaf-blind children. While
these are far from infallible, they seem to have a helpful degree of
reliability. The immediate need is for short-term courses for training
practicing psychologists to carry out these functions in their own neigh-
borhoods.

THE PROBLEM OF COMMUNICATION

It has become a commonplace to describe the problems caused by
deaf -blindness in terms of communication. This can be misleading unless
the word is used in a very broad sense. It is not only language develop-
ment which deaf-blindness inhibits, but many other elements of child
growth including perception, motor skills, awareness of one's own
body, relationships with others and so forth. Experience in handling
these problems of retarded growth is being obtained, and to some extent
has been recorded both in print and on film by several specialists. Work
on this problem is being carried out intensively by Miss Nan Robbins
of the Perkins staff. In the Netherlands, Mr. Jan Van Dijk, who is in
charge of the Program for Deaf-Blind at the School for the Deaf at Sint
Michielsgestel, is doing useful pioneering work.

Perkins School for the Blind 95

THE SCHOOL YEARS

About ninety deaf-blind children are in special programs located
in seven schools for the blind in the United States at present. Most of
these are between the ages of five and nineteen. Not all of these children
have the benefit of teachers who had special training, and the shortage
of trained teachers and of training facilities is serious. Various philoso-
phies exist in different schools concerning the best type of communica-
tion to use in school. It is the strong conviction of those at Perkins that
it is even more important for a deaf-blind person than for a deaf person
to acquire usable and intelligible speech, but not all deaf-blind children
seem capable of making the extremely arduous effort required.

THE SOCIAL PROBLEM

It is comparatively easy to teach a deaf-blind child the traditional
subjects taught in school and to help him to acquire useful manual
skills. The problem of providing him with social experience is more
difficult.

This is an area which, to some extent, has been neglected both in
America and elsewhere. The placing of a deaf-blind child in a school
for the blind does have very definite advantages in this regard par-
ticularly where, as at Perkins, the deaf-blind children live in the same
cottages as the blind ones. Only by constant experience with other chil-
dren can a deaf-blind child become motivated to reach out to the world
around him and strive to become a part of it. It is well known that
Miss Helen Keller has described the deaf-blind as "the loneliest people
on earth." Only by organized and continuous effort on the part of
school personnel can a deaf-blind boy or girl be brought to a stage
where he will be able to participate in the social life of his family and his
community with any degree of success.

TEACHER TRAINING
Reference has been made to the need for teacher training. The first
such program to be established was between Perkins and Boston Uni-
versity in 1955. In 1967, two other programs are getting under way;
one at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee,
and the other at San Francisco State Teachers College. These three
courses are wholly inadequate to meet the needs of deaf-blind children
in the years immediately ahead. The current Perkins course is now
given in cooperation with Boston College.

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NEED FOR RESEARCH
In all phases of the program for the deaf-blind, there are still great
gaps of ignorance. Research along many lines is desirable. As far as
we know, Miss Robbins and Mrs. Stenquist of the Perkins staff are the
only people who have been employed full time on research in the
problems of the deaf-blind. They need many associates throughout
the country and, indeed, overseas if the needs of the deaf -blind are going
to be determined within our generation.

PUBLIC EDUCATION

Finally there is, of course, the problem of public education. The
few deaf-blind persons who have become successes are seriously handi-
capped by public ignorance of their ability to function in society and as
employees. The mass media and literature should be used to the fullest
extent to increase the understanding of the problems of the deaf -blind,
not only among the public at large but among such professional persons
as medical practitioners, university professors and social workers.

The future for the deaf -blind has never looked so bright. However,
for those who are deaf-blind, it still must be considered a very gloomy
one. The fact that they are so few makes the problem all the greater.
The relative smallness of the group and the extreme intensity of their
problems combine to offer a challenge probably unmatched in the field
of education.

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Perkins School
for the Blind

One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh

Annual Report

Perkins School
for the Blind

Incorporated March 2, 1829

A member since 1947 of

The New England Association of Colleges

and Secondary Schools

1968

Watertown, Massachusetts 02172

CONTENTS

Report of the Director 5

Dr. Gabriel Farrell 23

Annual Meeting of the Corporation 26

Report of the President 28

Report of the Bursar 29

Perkins History 40

Officers 1830-1968 54

Trustees 1830-1968 55

Officers of the Corporation 1968-1969 57

Members of the Corporation 58

Members of the Staff 61

The Class of 1968 68

Registration as of November 1, 1968 76

List of Students 1968-1969 77

Treasurer's Report 81

Accountants' Report 82

Addendum A 105

Addendum B 109

The Perkins Endowment Ill

Form of Bequest 112

Outline of Perkins History 113

DR. GABRIEL FARRELL

1886-1968
DIRECTOR OF PERKINS

1931-1951

Report of the Director

There were several unique features about the opening of the school
year 1967-68. First of all, it began two weeks earlier than usual
since our domestic staff and many of our faculty had already returned
to the campus in August to participate in the International Conference
of Educators of Blind Youth. Pupils returned immediately after Labor
Day.

In addition, since we were starting operations under the Fair Labor
Standards Act, we had a considerable increase in household staff, in-
cluding housemothers, cooks and maids. We also had more attendants
for our deaf-blind children. The effects of this increase on the budget
are dealt with in the Bursar's Annual Report. The problem of finding
living space for the additional workers was also serious. This was
partly solved by using the upper floors of a two-family house at the
corner of Riverside and Royal Streets which the school had purchased
several years previously.

This house, which soon became known as Riverside-Royal, became
invaluable for another reason. Under the leadership of Miss Elizabeth
Banta, who joined the faculty during the summer, plans were made as
soon as school opened to organize a day program for pre-school deaf-
blind children. It took several months to prepare the classrooms on the
ground floor of this building, and to visit prospective pupils in their
homes. In February, the first children were admitted. Accompanied by
their mothers (and an occasional father), they came in different groups
two mornings a week and both children and parents seemed to benefit
greatly from the experience.

Since regular tuition fees could not be charged for pre-school chil-
dren because the Massachusetts Department of Education had no money
allocated for this purpose, we requested a Grant under Title I. This law
provides Federal money to each State to use in the enrichment of educa-
tional programs. While this grant did not cover the entire cost of this
operation, it helped us considerably to get the program under way.

Except for brief "Baby Schools" held in the early days of the
retrolental wave, Perkins has not served pre-school children before.
This began our offerings to defective children born to mothers who had
rubella during pregnancy in the epidemic of 1963-64. Never before

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had there been a large enough group of deaf-blind infants living within
reach of Perkins for us to contemplate group activities.

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

During the latter half of 1967, we followed with the keenest in-
terest, the progress of two bills through Congress.

The first of these was an amendment to the Vocational Rehabilita-
tion Act "to establish a National Center for Deaf -Blind Youths and
Adults."

The second was an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act "to establish a limited number of centers for the educa-
tion of deaf-blind children."

Both of these bills resulted from the initiative of Miss Mary Switzer,
the head of Social & Rehabilitation Services in the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare. Both had the direct support of Presi-
dent Lyndon B. Johnson.

While Perkins was not directly concerned with the first bill, the
proposed center will doubtless offer important services to some of our
deaf-blind children after they leave us. In addition, we expected that
Congress would treat both bills with the same favor or disfavor.

Hearings on the V.R.A. Amendment were heard before a Select
Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and
Labor on July 18, 1967. Two of our outstanding graduates were called
upon to testify. They were Dr. Peter J. Salmon (Perkins 1914) and
Robert J. Smithdas, a deaf -blind graduate of the class of 1945. Extracts
from their testimony are reprinted in this report.

The bill passed the House without a dissenting vote on August 21st.
At this time, Congressman Hugh Carey of New York paid tribute to the
work Dr. Salmon and Mr. Smithdas had done for the deaf -blind.

When President Johnson signed this bill on October 3, 1967, the
Director of Perkins was among those invited to the White House. Un-
fortunately, as mentioned later in this report, he was not able to accept
the invitation.

The Education Act, in which we had a direct interest and on whose
wording we had been consulted, was passed without a hearing on the
day Congress adjourned for the Christmas Recess and was signed by
President Johnson at his Texas ranch. The text of this bill, which has
great significance for the future of deaf-blind children, is reprinted on
page 109.

Unfortunately, the passing of a bill and the carrying out of its
purposes are usually separated by a considerable period of time. When
this school year ended on August 31, 1968, no money had been ap-

Perkins School for the Blind

DEFINITION OF A DEAF-BLIND CHILD

The guidelines which were drawn up by the Bureau of Edu-
cation of the Handicapped for the implementation of the legislation
which provides for the setting up of a limited number of Centers
for Deaf -Blind Children include the following definition of a deaf-
blind child. In effect this gives legal recognition to the definition
adopted by Perkins over a decade ago. This definition has proved
of great value in assuring that children with a combination of
visual and auditory handicaps are not deprived of an education
because one or both of the handicaps are only slight.

"As used throughout these regulations, the term 'deaf-blind
child' means a child who has auditory and visual handicaps, re-
gardless of the degree of impairment, the combination of which
causes such severe communication and other developmental and
educational problems that he cannot properly be accommodated in
special education programs either for the hearing handicapped
child or for the visually handicapped child."

propriated for the Centers for Deaf-Blind Children. (One million dol-
lars was appropriated later in the year. )

While Congress delayed, the "rubella babies" grew steadily older.
Our correspondence from parents and from agencies concerned with
these handicapped children continued to grow.

As reported in the 1967 Annual Report, a decision had already
been taken by the Trustees to erect two buildings along the North Beacon
Street side of the campus. One of these, tentatively named the Northeast
Building, was planned to occupy the area between the Main Drive and
Beechwood Avenue which forms our eastern boundary. The other, des-
ignated the North Building, was to be built to the west of the Main
Drive.

The Northeast Building was planned with two purposes in mind. It
will contain suites where visiting parents can live with their deaf-blind
children when they bring them to Watertown for evaluation. It will also
contain living quarters for teachers-in-training, and for some of the
many professional visitors who, in increasing numbers, ask for an op-
portunity to observe our program and consult with our staff. This
building should be ready for occupancy in September 1969.

To make room for this building, the Bursar's Residence was moved
to another part of the campus. Since the building was constructed of

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brick, this seemed to us a remarkable feat. Between July 1st and July
30th, it was moved along the Beechwood Avenue fence and across the
Upper School Boys Athletic Field to a location adjoining the Principal's
House overlooking the Charles River. The house was delivered to its
new site in one piece and in excellent condition.

The North Building will provide a variety of educational services
for deaf-blind children, and for teachers-in-training. Space will be pro-
vided for the pre-school activities now inadequately housed in the River-
side-Royal quarters. Better provision will be made for our program of
diagnosis and evaluation and for teacher-training. A small but modern
auditorium for conferences is included in the plans. This building should
be completed before September 1970.

VISIT TO EUROPEAN SCHOOLS

In September 1967, the Director accompanied by Mr. Edward
Diehl, the architect of the new buildings; Mr. Donald F. Baumgartner,
who had recently been appointed Bursar-elect; and Mr. Claude A. Mac-
Intyre, our competent Superintendent of Maintenance and Engineering
since 1953, traveled to Europe in search of useful ideas concerning
facilities for the education of the deaf-blind. Visits were paid to the
School for the Deaf at Sint Michielsgestel in The Netherlands where
there is an excellent program for the deaf-blind directed by Dr. Jan van
Dijk who spent a year recently in our Deaf -Blind Department.

A visit was also made to Condover Hall School for Blind Children
with additional handicaps which is situated near Shrewsbury in the Eng-
lish Midlands. Here the Headmaster, Mr. S. O. Myers, showed us plans
for new facilities which will be used to supplement and in part to replace
the quarters currently in use in the original Hall building which was
erected in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

The Perkins group paid special attention to Pathways, the depart-
ment for the deaf-blind at Condover, which is directed by Miss Joan
Shields who spent the year 1950-51 at Perkins and was among those
teachers of the deaf-blind to be awarded an Anne Sullivan Medal in 1966.

As we planned for the expected enlargement in enrollment of deaf-
blind children, we were concerned with other matters besides the provi-
sion of adequate facilities.

SHORTAGE OF TRAINED TEACHERS

There is a national shortage of teachers trained to work with deaf-
blind children. Our Teacher-Training Program given in association with

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Boston College, and previously with Boston University, has barely pro-
vided us with the teachers we needed, while only a handful of graduates
from this program have joined the faculties of other deaf-blind depart-
ments.

One reason for the shortage is the high ratio of teachers to deaf-
blind pupils. Our custom has been to assign two children to a teacher
and locate the group in a relatively small classroom.

In September 1967, we decided to experiment with a different
plan. We furnished the living room of Oliver Cottage as a classroom,
using low partitions to divide it into several zones. We associated two
adjoining classrooms with this area and placed in it two fully-trained
teachers, two assistant teachers and six pupils.

The immediate effect was to reduce the ratio of trained teachers to
pupils by fifty per cent. The addition of two assistant teachers, however,
provided each child with more care. Instead of having half the attention
of a teacher, he now had two thirds. The per capita cost of teaching a
child was increased.

This experiment was carefully planned and supervised. Mrs. Rose
M. Vivian, Principal of the Department, selected Miss Elizabeth Van
Arnam (who later in the year became Mrs. Bernard Lech) and Mme.
Tay Sock Hiang to be teachers in charge. Two assistant teachers and
six children were carefully chosen to complete the group.

The experiment was apparently a success. The children seemed to
enjoy being part of a larger group and it was observed that they were
more strongly motivated as a result of the increased competition. When
the spring of 1968 came, and the task of planning for 1968-69 was un-
dertaken, the department staff which had with justification been skeptical
over the plan, welcomed its extension to include most of our deaf-blind
children. It was felt that a few still needed the support obtained from
being part of a very small and structured group. Those pupils in high
school continued to attend classes with our Upper School blind pupils,
aided by an assistant teacher.

In anticipation of a heavy demand for trained teachers of the deaf-
blind, enrollment in our Teacher-Training Program was increased from
ten to fourteen.

DEAF-BLIND IN OTHER LANDS

Before turning from the deaf-blind to report on the general pro-
gram of the school, three events of international scope should be touched
on briefly.

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ROBERT C. SMITHDAS IN JAPAN

Perkins had been following with much interest a growing desire in
Japan to establish good programs for deaf-blind children. Influential
members of the Government and the Diet have sought our cooperation.
Several years ago, the Perkins Trustees had granted a request and pro-
vided a Japanese sound track on our film "Children of the Silent Night."
This film has roused considerable interest among the Japanese, but no
film on the deaf-blind can take the place of direct contact with a success-
ful deaf-blind individual. Consequently, it was suggested to us that ar-
rangements should be made for Robert C. Smithdas to visit Japan in
October and November 1968. Our Trustees agreed to finance this trip
and the Industrial Home for the Blind cooperated by releasing Mr.
Smithdas and his Secretary, Mr. Herbert Lehman.

Mr. Smithdas had no trouble at all in making himself understood
at a series of press conferences, the first of which took place the moment
his plane landed at Tokyo Airport. He was invited to lunch by the
Minister of Education, and appeared twice on television. He addressed
a capacity audience at the Takarazuka Opera House where he met
members of the Royal family.

Accompanying Mr. Smithdas, in addition to Mr. Lehman, were our
Public Relations Consultant, Mr. Robert M. Campbell; the Assistant
Director, Mr. Benjamin F. Smith, and the Director.

TEACHER-TRAINING IN EUROPE

The shortage of trained teachers of the deaf-blind is even more
acute in Europe than in America. To alleviate this condition, Dr. Jeanne
R. Kenmore, Head of the European Office of the American Foundation
for Overseas Blind, organized a short course to be given in The Nether-
lands with the cooperation of the Deaf-Blind Department of the School
for the Deaf at Sint Michielsgestel, Netherlands. Two of the Perkins
staff, Miss Nan Robbins and Mrs. Rose M. Vivian, spent a week or two
in Holland lecturing to the trainees. The Director and Mr. Smith also
visited Sint Michielsgestel while this course was in progress.

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE DEAF-BLIND

By coincidence, Sint Michielsgestel had already agreed to be host
to an International Conference on the deaf-blind later that year. In Au-
gust, 1968 six faculty members of Perkins attended.

Hosting the Conference was the Rev. J. van Eyndhoven, the Princi-
pal of the school, and Mr. Jan van Dijk, Director of Sint Raphael, the

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DEATH OF HELEN KELLER

On June 1, 1968, less than a week before school closed, Helen
Keller died at her home in Connecticut. She was almost 88
years old.

Helen Keller's last appearance at Perkins was on November
14, 1956 when, accompanied by Miss Polly Thomson, she came
to dedicate the headquarters building of the Department for Deaf-
Blind Children as the Keller-Macy Cottage in honor of herself and
her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy.

In August 1961, the Director, with Mr. Robert M. Campbell
and Dr. Peter Salmon, accompanied Chan Poh Lin, our deaf-blind
student from Singapore to Miss Keller's home. Although she was
showing signs of physical weakness at that time, her mind was very
active and her welcome was warm and enthusiastic. She spent con-
siderable time in conversation with Poh Lin discussing her future.

At the request of Mr. Jansen Noyes, Jr., the President of the
American Foundation for the Blind, the Perkins chorus went to
Washington to sing at a Memorial Service for Helen Keller in the
National Cathedral on June 5th. They traveled down by chartered
plane. The Vice-President of Perkins, Mr. Samuel Cabot, together
with Dr. and Mrs. Waterhouse and members of the administration
and the Department for Deaf -Blind Children, attended the service.

Although called upon to sing at such short notice, the chorus
sang beautifully. The Memorial Service was rich in its expression
of triumph rather than loss. We were constantly reminded of an
earlier occasion in April 1966 when our chorus sang at the Cathe-
dral in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth
of Anne Sullivan. We were reminded that at that time we regretted
that Miss Keller was not well enough to attend.

Helen Keller's ashes now lie in the Cathedral crypt beside those
of Anne Sullivan and Polly Thomson. Her inspiration for the
blind and the deaf and for those who seek to serve them will live on.

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Deaf-Blind Department there. Mr. van Dijk spent a year in our Deaf-
Blind Department at Perkins recently.

Representing Perkins were Mrs. Stenquist, Mrs. Lech, Mr. and
Mrs. Guldager, Mme. Tay Sock Hiang as well as the Director. Chan Poh
Lin was also present on her way back to Perkins from Singapore. Mrs.
Waterhouse, Mr. Stenquist and Mr. Lech were also present.

A paper on the evaluation of the deaf -blind was given by Mrs. Sten-
quist and on teaching speech to the deaf-blind by Mrs. Lech. The Di-
rector spoke on the problems of establishing programs for deaf-blind
children.

The Director was reappointed Chairman of this organization which
is a Subcommittee on the Deaf-Blind of the International Council of
Educators of Blind Youth. Tentative plans were made for holding re-
gional workshops of teachers of the deaf-blind every two years and plans
have already been laid for such workshops in the United States, Aus-
tralia and Europe. A full conference of the body is planned for August
1971 at Perkins.

Mr. Robert Smithdas was also at the Conference and gave a valu-
able paper on placement of the deaf-blind. While in Holland, Mr. Smith-
das, together with Mr. and Mrs. Waterhouse, paid a visit to an outstand-
ing deaf-blind man, Dr. Gerrit van der Mey. Dr. van der Mey carries on
his activities as a Mathematician and Engineer through teletype com-
munications with the Home Office of his organization where he is em-
ployed as a Programmer for computers. On this occasion, Mr. Smithdas
and the Director presented Dr. van der Mey with an Anne Sullivan Gold
Medal Award on behalf of Perkins School for the Blind and The Indus-
trial Home for the Blind. These awards are made periodically to out-
standing deaf-blind persons or their teachers.

"LEGACY OF ANNE SULLIVAN"

As part of the celebrations for the centennial of the birth of Anne
Sullivan, The Industrial Home for the Blind and Perkins School for the
Blind agreed to produce a film entitled, "The Legacy of Anne Sullivan",
produced by Mr. Robert M. Campbell who made our prize-winning
films "The Perkins Story" and "Children of the Silent Night".

This film which is in sound and color and 16 millimeters and runs
29 minutes was released during the school year. It consists of three parts.
To begin with, there is a description of what is being done at Perkins for
deaf-blind children, followed by an account of what is being done at
The Industrial Home for the Blind for deaf-blind adults. The final part
of the film deals briefly with the private lives and careers of the eight

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deaf -blind men and women who were awarded Anne Sullivan Medals in
Washington's National Cathedral in April 1966.

THE PARTIALLY SEEING CHILD

Unlike the countries of Europe, the United States has educated
blind and partially seeing children in the same schools and frequently in
the same classes. At Perkins, the range of vision possessed by our chil-
dren extends from those with no sight at all to those who are at the upper
limits of legal blindness; namely they have not more than 20/200 vision
in the better eye.

The dividing line between the blind and the partially seeing is
neither sharp nor fixed. Some children may be said to fall into both cate-
gories or to vacillate between them. The most significant factor in educa-
tion, however, is a child's need for braille, or alternatively, his ability
to read print. Some children who can handle large type with or without
optical aids still need braille when large type is not available. These
borderline children are usually the most difficult to serve since with them
the motivation to master braille is likely to be quite low.

PERCEPTUAL DYSFUNCTION

New insights into the problems of the partially seeing have been
provided in recent years by those educators who have been studying the
large number of children in American schools who although they have
normal vision yet have trouble learning to read. It is now widely ac-
cepted that a specific handicap, generally described as Perceptual Dys-
function, can be diagnosed. More important, techniques for dealing with
it have been developed.

In our Lower School, under the leadership of our Assistant Director,
Mr. Benjamin F. Smith, and our Lower School Supervisor, Miss Cynthia
Essex, our teachers have been exploring the use of several tests includ-
ing the Frostig Test of Visual Perception and the Bender-Gestalt Test.
The results, while not entirely conclusive, indicate that many of our
print-reading students have learning disabilities related to perceptual
dysfunction.

There are a number of systems now developed for helping these chil-
dren. Among them, we found the Gatengo Words in Color Program
very helpful. There are also facilities available for training teachers to
use these special techniques. The school encouraged our teachers to
avail themselves of these opportunities and provided financial assistance.
A number of our teachers responded enthusiastically and signed up for
special courses.

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The magnitude of this problem is best demonstrated by the follow-
ing statistics. Plans were made during the summer of 1968 to accommo-
date 53 print-using pupils in the Lower School out of a total enrollment
of ninety-five. Eight of fifteen classes were to include pupils using these
materials and eight of our fifteen Lower School teachers were assigned
to devote a major share of their time to working with these pupils. It
should be pointed out that all of these children fall within the classifica-
tion of legal blindness.

While it is always dangerous to reach conclusions prematurely
about the value of tests and new techniques, progress made by a num-
ber of our children would seem to indicate that the program which has
been established in the Lower School is of significant value.

THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT

Music has always played an important role at Perkins since the
school opened in 1832. This year was no exception.

Since 1957, a number of residential schools for the blind in the
Northeastern part of this country have combined in an Annual Music
Festival. Much of the credit for inaugurating this program and for its
growing success goes to Mr. Paul L. Bauguss, our Music Director since
1947. On Friday and Saturday, April 26th and April 27th, 1968,
Perkins was host to the Festival which included instrumentalists and
choral groups from the New York Institute for the Education of the
Blind in New York City, the New York State School for the Blind in
Batavia, New York, the Oak Hill School for the Blind in Hartford,
Connecticut, the Overlea School for the Blind in Baltimore, Maryland
and the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia, as well as
Perkins.

It has been customary for the host school to provide musical enter-
tainment to their visitors on the Friday evening. The Music Department
prepared an original musical play, "The Mozart Story", on the musical
career of the great composer. The story was written and the actors di-
rected by Mr. Anthony Ackerman who teaches English in the Upper
School and directs the Drama Club. The appropriate music was selected
by Mr. Bauguss and other members of the Music Department who also,
of course, prepared our pupils musically.

The program for the joint concert given on the Saturday evening is
reprinted on page 15. It indicates the high level of performance which
characterizes these annual festivals. Included in the two days' program
were several social events including a banquet on Saturday evening.

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CONCERT OF COMBINED CHORUS

Twelfth Annual Music Festival

Schools for the Blind

Eastern Region

DWIGHT HALL

Perkins School for the Blind

Watertown, Massachusetts

April 27, 1968

8:15 P.M.

PROGRAM

Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened

George Frederick Handel
"Here, Yet Awhile" from "St. Matthew
Passion"

Johann Sebastian Bach
In fond memory of Dr. Harold Gilbert, Overbrook School

"Gloria" from Mass in E flat

Franz Schubert

Andante (second movement) from Pianoforte
Concerto

Aram Khachaturian
Otis Stoup, pianist
accompanied by Mr. Jack Beyers, Music Faculty
Maryland School for the Blind

Festival Te Deum

Gustav Hoist
"Sure On This Shining Night"

Samuel Barber
"O Magnum Mysterium"

Tomas Luis da Victoria
"Blossoms of Oranges" opening Chorus of
Peasants from the opera "Cavalleria
Rusticana"

Pietro Mascagni
"Mary's Blessing and Farewell" from "Wonder
Tidings"

John La Montaine
"Beat! Beat! Drums!" from "Drum Taps"

Howard Hanson

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OTHER DEPARTMENTS

Space provides inadequate coverage of our many other activities
during the school year. As evidence of our increasing appreciation of
the value of sound guidance to our pupils, we added a fourth counselor
to serve under the direction of Mr. Carl J. Davis and Mr. John L. Morse.
Both of these Psychologists were also actively working on the develop-
ment of new tests for blind youth.

In Athletics and Industrial Arts, as well as in our academic sub-
jects, we offered a full program. Increased attention was given to girls'
athletics.

One of the most active and important departments of our school
includes our various libraries. With our research library, regional library
and libraries for pupils, both Upper School and Lower School, this is an
integral part of the school's activities. Our regional library widened its
scope in accepting among its readers handicapped persons who are not
blind. This is a result of a change in the law under which the Library of
Congress has been operating its Talking Book Program. The increase
of tapes nationally has also been reflected in our activities. Mrs. Billie J.
Ouellette, our Head Librarian, has been very active in keeping abreast
of these developments and attended the American Library Association
Annual Conference in June, held in Kansas City, Missouri.

SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT

It is important to maintain close contact with our pupils' families,
especially for children newly enrolled. Responsibility for this lies with
Miss Mary Whitelaw who makes frequent home visits in the New Eng-
land area. She is also responsible for maintaining close contact with pub-
lic and private agencies which provide services to our children.

INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION

For children who need the special services of a Speech Therapist,
we have two full-time Therapists on our staff. Mrs. Waterhouse deals
mainly with the Upper School and Kindergarten, while Miss Ingersoll
provides services to the primary and intermediate grades. Physio Therapy
is provided under the direction of our Health Department by Mrs. Ber-
nice H. Lowen.

OFF-CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

Our pupils engage in a wide variety of off-campus activities. On
more than 150 occasions during the 38 weeks of the school year under

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review, groups of pupils left the Watertown grounds for one purpose or
another. These included visits to other schools for the blind such as the
Girls Play Day at Batavia, the First Electronic Convention of the New
York Institute for the Education of the Blind, a Wrestling Match at the
Oak Hill School for the Blind in Hartford, Conn., and the Wrestling
Tournament at the Overlea School for the Blind in Baltimore.

This year an interesting new development was the model United
Nations at Harvard. Our pupils participated in two such events. There
were also the regular Sports Car Rally at Wakefield in September and
the Sugaring-Off Party in New Hampshire in the winter.

Hardly a Museum, Zoo or Library in the neighborhood was not
visited on more than one occasion. Fire Stations and Police Stations are
very popular with our pupils, as also such historic places as Plimouth
Plantation, Concord and Lexington, and the U.S.S. Constitution. The
School takes full advantage of the rich historic and cultural facilities in
the neighborhood. Regular visits were paid to Boston Symphony Orches-
tra Concerts.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Increasing attention has been paid in recent years to social activities
for our pupils involving other students. Several years ago, Miss Wadell
was appointed to take charge of this program and when she left, Mr.
John Goss replaced her in September 1967.

Most of these activities take place at the weekend. With the in-
creasing number of our pupils going home each week, it was expected
that this part of our program would decline in interest and importance.
However, it is not always easy for parents to plan social activities for
their children, particularly when they are away at school during the
week. During this year, no fewer than 58 social events involving our
children with "outside" boys and girls were reported to the Director.
Many of these involved between twelve and twenty children and some-
times even more. More than half of them took place off campus and a
number of them involved visits to private homes.

During the year, Ballroom Instruction was provided on Monday
evenings in the fall months. The instructor, Mr. William Bradford,
brought in girls to be partners for our boys and boys to partner our girls.

In the early fall and spring months, instruction in sailing was pro-
vided on Saturday mornings by Community Boating, Inc. whose boat-
house is in the Charles River Basin.

The need for social experience by our pupils is very great and we
feel that these activities are a very important part of our total program.

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SUMMER SCHOOL

For the third year in succession, we held a summer school lasting
four weeks, but unlike the 1967 session, this year's program was entirely
nonresidential. Title I funds were used as before. Thirty-three students
attended, ranging in age from five to nineteen. These included all types
of pupils from slow learners to college-preparatory students.

The curriculum covered Mathematics, English, Mobility, Swim-
ming, Lower School Science, Lower School Crafts, Daily Living Skills,
Typing and Handwriting. Some time was also devoted each week to
recreation, and field trips included visits to the U.S.S. Constitution and
Bunker Hill Monument, the Edaville Railroad in Carver, Massachusetts
and Canobie Lake Park in Salem, New Hampshire.

Seventeen teachers (plus one volunteer) worked under the leader-
ship of our Principal, Mr. A. Claude Ellis, who reports that good prog-
ress was made largely owing to the excellent student-teacher ratio
which permitted much individual attention.

TEACHING AIDS FOR THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED

In recent years, an increasing number of catalogs have passed over
my desk advertising educational devices of all kinds which are finding
their way into the regular classrooms of the country. Unfortunately, no
Perkins staff member had the time — or the special expertise — to investi-
gate their applicability to the education of the visually handicapped.

During the year, our Trustees approved the temporary employment
of Louis H. Goldish to make a study of this matter. Mr. Goldish is a
recent graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology who had
proved his ability as researcher and author in a study of the production
and use of braille.

Mr. Goldish found that a number of commercially produced de-
vices could be useful in schools for the blind, though many of these have
value only for children with useable vision. His report, "Teaching Aids
for the Visually Handicapped", has been published by Perkins and is
available to interested persons.

INTRODUCTION OF COMPUTERS

During the summer of 1968, the General Electric Company offered
us the opportunity to use one of their computers on a shared-time basis.
A contract was signed providing us with two or three teletype keyboards
connected to the computer.

This equipment which holds great promise for our program became

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available as the school year 1968-69 began and its value will be recorded
in the next Annual Report.

TEACHER-TRAINING PROGRAM

Our Teacher-Training Department continued to offer two programs
in association with Boston College. The program for Teachers of the
Blind included eighteen students. Among these were four Indians and
one trainee each from Malaysia, England, South Vietnam and Ghana.
Four of the graduates joined our faculty for 1968-69.

The program for teachers of the deaf-blind included fourteen
trainees. One of these was an exchange teacher from The Netherlands.
There were also two Australians enrolled and one student each from
Ghana and West Germany. Five of the graduates joined the Perkins
faculty.

These courses were directed by Mr. William T. Heisler, our Di-
rector of Teacher-Training, working in cooperation with Dr. John R.
Eichora of the Boston College faculty.

THE HOWE PRESS

Under the management of Mr. Harry J. Friedman, the Howe Press
had a busy year with orders for the Perkins Brailler continuing to flow
in at a high rate. Overseas sales increased markedly, while domestic
sales declined somewhat. Out of a total of 5,049 machines shipped,
2,056 went to other lands. The United Kingdom was our largest foreign
customer.

AAIB TO AEVH

In June 1968, the American Association of Instructors of the Blind
met in Toronto, Ontario and in the course of the meeting changed its
name to the Association of Educators of the Visually Handicapped.

Attending the Convention were fourteen members of the Perkins
staff, including Mr. Carl J. Davis, Head of our Department of Psy-
chology and Guidance who, during the week, was promoted from Second
Vice-President to First Vice-President. Under normal circumstances,
Mr. Davis will become President of this national organization when it
meets next in 1970 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mr. Davis also participated in a program on the teacher use of the
results of psychological tests and chaired a panel on sex education in
schools. Among other staff members participating in the program were
Mrs. Eleanor Schneider, one of our Guidance Counselors who partici-

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pated on a panel discussion on counselling as a team process and Mrs.
Shirley Welch, the Upper School Librarian who participated on a panel
on educational information services. Mr. William T. Heisler, Head of
our Teacher-Training Department, chaired a panel on teacher-training.
At recent conventions of this Association, Perkins has hosted a
breakfast for past and present members of the staff attending and former
students. This year no fewer than fifty-four people were present. While
these included some spouses and in one or two cases, children, it is evi-
dence of the widespread influence of Perkins nationally in our field. The
Director brought those present up-to-date on developments at Perkins
and reminded them that the school is always changing and that they
should not assume that the program, as they knew it when they were
with us, is still in effect.

RETIREMENT OF MR. HEMPHILL

In the spring of 1967, our Bursar, Mr. J. Stephenson Hemphill,
notified the Director of his desire to retire in August 1968. The Trustees
agreed that a successor should be appointed who would spend the school
year 1967-68 in the Bursar's Office to acquaint himself with the business
affairs of the school. Mr. Donald F. Baumgartner was appointed to this
position. Mr. Baumgartner retired from the United States Navy with
the rank of Commander, had extensive business in handling naval sup-
plies, both in the United States and overseas. He was in charge of sup-
plies for the United States Seventh Fleet, stationed in Naples, Italy for
several years.

Mr. Hemphill was our first Bursar. He was appointed by the Trus-
tees and Dr. Farrell in 1937 as the business affairs of the school grew in
complexity and made it difficult for the Director to handle them unaided.
Mr. Hemphill directed the business affairs of the school during its period
of greatest expansion. As an indication of this growth, it should be
noted that in 1936 the school spent $171,000.00. Among Mr. Hemphill's
last duties was the preparation of the 1968-69 budget which is in excess
of $2,600,000.00. Mr. Hemphill took charge of the construction of a
number of buildings on the campus, including the Maintenance Building,
the new Gymnasium, the Foods Building and the Research Library. He
participated actively in plans for the North Building and Northeast
Building which are currently under construction.

Mr. Hemphill is a very active member of the National Association
of Educational Buyers. In 1952, he was one of the Founders of the
Massachusetts Association of Nonprofit Schools and Colleges. This

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organization keeps an eye on legislation, both State and Federal, which
might have an effect upon educational institutions. He is also a Trustee
of the Watertown Savings Bank.

Mr. Hemphill instituted the annual survey of salaries for nonpro-
fessional workers by enlisting the cooperation of educational and other
nonprofit organizations in New England. By an exchange of informa-
tion between these organizations, all of them have been helped to estab-
lish equitable pay scales for household and clerical help, for library per-
sonnel and for maintenance and engineering employees.

Among Mr. Hemphill's other responsibilities was the handling of
the Pension Plan and keeping it up-to-date. This plan which was put
into effect with the Equitable Assurance Society of the United States
shortly before Mr. Hemphill joined the faculty is believed to be one of
the most generous pension plans in the Northeastern United States.

Mr. and Mrs. Hemphill plan to live on the Cape after retirement
and it is expected that both of them will continue to maintain an active
and fruitful interest in the affairs of the school.

A WORD OF THANKS

A special word of thanks must go to the large number of volunteers
who come in the evenings to read to our older pupils. Not only is there
a shortage of braille material, which probably will never be wholly met,
but reading braille can be very slow and in order to cover the normal
curriculum, such subjects as Science, Social Studies and English, it is
necessary to provide our pupils with help in this way. The volunteers
give their services enthusiastically at what, at times, must be considerable
inconvenience, particularly during bad weather. Many of our volunteers
are college students from the vicinity.

Our thanks also are due to the many others who not only enriched
the school year, but indeed made it possible. We want to thank our
parents who almost universally are understanding of our problems and
respond to requests for assistance and support. Our Trustees are un-
failingly eager to support us in our many endeavors. The social program
mentioned above could not, of course, take place without the enthusias-
tic support of literally hundreds of adults who help to organize these
events and teenagers who participate in them and who seem to enjoy
them very much.

We continue to receive many gifts and bequests, without which the
growth of our school would be impossible. I particularly wish to thank

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the 3,611 friends who contributed a total of $67,075.00 to our Annual
"Children of the Silent Night" Appeal.

Respectfully submitted,

Edward J. Waterhouse
Director

Addendum A

Extracts from testimony of Peter J. Salmon and Robert J. Smithdas

page 105

Addendum B

Extracts from Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments
of 1967 page 109

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DR. GABRIEL FARRELL, 1886 TO 1968

Director of Perkins 1931-1951

Dr. Gabriel Farrell, who served as the fourth Director of Perkins
School for the Blind from 1931 until he retired in 1951, and who
was elected Director Emeritus by the Perkins Trustees in 1952, passed
away at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts September 18th, 1968.
He had suffered several massive cerebral hemorrhages in August and
never recovered.

Dr. Farrell was born in Boston, Massachusetts but while he was
still young his father moved to Somerville. The elder Farrell was a renter
of boats on the banks of the Charles, and Gabriel and his brother spent
much time as boys on the waterfront. He became a strong and coura-
geous swimmer and on over a score of occasions rescued people who
were in danger of drowning.

There was one particular occasion which was most momentous in
his life. His brother dove in the water to rescue a drowning man but was
pulled under by the victim. Gabriel, with complete disregard for his own
life, succeeded in bringing the pair to the surface and for this he was
awarded the Carnegie Medal. His brother later died from pneumonia as
a result of this experience. The $2,000.00 which went with the Carnegie
Award enabled Gabriel to go to college, while the publicity attained from
the receipt of this and some ten other lifesaving medals was of value to
him in establishing contacts throughout his college years.

Dr. Farrell chose to attend Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
During his student years, he developed an aptitude for journalism and he
became the Dartmouth College reporter for the Boston Transcript, at
that time the most famous newspaper in New England. While he was in
college, he also showed something of a flair for publicity and news-
worthy items and it is stated that one of his inspirations gave rise to the
now world-famous Dartmouth Winter Carnival.

AFTER COLLEGE

From Dartmouth, he proceeded to the Episcopal Theological
School and was ordained a Minister. He held a number of church posi-
tions and for some years he was a curate at Trinity Church in Copley
Square, Boston, Mass. During World War I, he served as an Army Chap-
lain. Also at one time, he was Canon of Religious Education in the
Diocese of Newark, New Jersey.

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APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF PERKINS

In 1930, he was recommended to the Perkins Trustees by Dr. Hop-
kins, the President of Dartmouth College, as a successor for Dr. Edward
E. Allen, our third Director who built the Watertown campus. Dr. Far-
rel came to us from Rhinebeck-on-Hudson where he had been the Rec-
tor since 1924.

Dr. Farrell came to the school just as the great depression was at
its worst and his term of office spanned also the difficult years of World
War II. For these reasons, many innovations which he longed to intro-
duce never reached fruition.

Dr. Farrell also reached the school at a time when the traditional
policy of segregating boys and girls in residential schools for the blind
was finally recognized as being both obsolete and harmful. He skillfully
directed the changeover from a segregated school to a co-educational
one.

Dr. Farrell's journalistic skills led quickly to the establishment of
the Perkins Lantern, our school magazine which has grown to play a
significant role in the education of blind youth, not only in the United
States, but overseas. He organized our work with the deaf-blind into a
special Department and established the annual "Children of the Silent
Night" campaign for deaf-blind children which has become a mainstay of
this program. Dr. Farrell was a wise and capable administrator. By
creating the office of Bursar, he laid the foundation for sound business
and fiscal management. By establishing the Perkins Pension Plan, he
made it possible for men and women to make Perkins their life work.

NATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Dr. Farrell was active in work for the blind beyond the campus and
for many years was Secretary and a Trustee of the American Founda-
tion for the Blind and a Trustee of the American Foundation for Over-
seas Blind. He played a major role in the establishment of the Protestant
Guild for the Blind in Massachusetts and was Secretary of the Board for
the Foundation of Vision in Boston. During World War II, he was a
member of the National Advisory Committee for the war-blinded.

INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Dr. Farrell spent some weeks in 1950 in Iran where he served as a
special consultant to the government to give advice on the education of
the blind in that country. For a number of years, he was a consultant to
UNESCO and was the writer of their report on the Social Welfare of
Blind Children.

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He was a member of the Organizing Committee of the International
Conference of Workers for the Blind which was held in August 1949 at
Oxford, England. From this Conference sprang both the World Council
for the Welfare of the Blind and the International Council of Educators
of Blind Youth. He was the Chairman of the first Conference of the
ICEBY at Bussum, The Netherlands in 1952 and attended the second
Conference at Oslo, Norway in 1957. A year ago when the ICEBY met
at Perkins, he was present at several of the functions.

While Director of Perkins, Dr. Farrell was awarded an Honorary
Degree of Doctor of Divinity by Dartmouth College.

RETIREMENT

Dr. Farrell retired in the spring of 1951. Soon after, he became ac-
tive again with his first love, the work of the Episcopal Church, and for
several years he was a Public Relations Officer at the Episcopal Theo-
logical School in Cambridge.

In recent years, he had been living in an apartment overlooking
Cambridge Common. He and Mrs. Farrell had been spending their
winters on the coast of Georgia and much of their summers at Bolton
Landing on Lake George in New York.

Funeral Services were held for Dr. Farrell on Saturday, September
21st at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Boston. On October 1st, a
Memorial Service was held at the school in Watertown at which Dr.
Charles W. F. Smith, Professor of Theology at the Episcopal Theologi-
cal Seminary, spoke on his contribution to the Episcopal Church.

Mr. Eric T. Boulter, the President of the World Council for the
Welfare of the Blind and Associate Director of the American Founda-
tion for Overseas Blind, described Dr. Farrell's national and interna-
tional services to the blind, and the Director of Perkins spoke on Dr.
Farrell's contribution to the school. The Upper School Choir sang the
"Lacrymosa from the Requiem" by Mozart and "How Lovely Is Thy
Dwelling Place" by Brahms. The service ended with the congregation
joining in singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Dr. Farrell enjoyed his seventeen years of retirement. Seventeen
years are none too long but they span more than a generation of school
years. None of the present pupils at Perkins knew him as Director. About
thirty men and women of the staff served under him. Some of them were
once also his pupils. He made his mark upon the life of Perkins and
gratefully those who knew him joined to honor his memory.

Present at the Memorial Services were his two sons, Gabriel and
William, and his daughter, Naomi.

E. J. W.

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CORPORATION

Watertown, Massachusetts, November 4, 1 968

he Annual Meeting of the Corporation, duly summoned, was held

at the School and was called together by the President, Dr. Augustus
Thorndike, at 2:00 p.m. The Annual Report of the Trustees was read by
the Chairman and adopted. The Annual Report of the Treasurer was
submitted, together with the certificate of the Certified Public Accountant.

It was MOVED and VOTED that acts and expenditures made and
authorized by the Board of Trustees, or any committee appointed by
said Board of Trustees, during the last corporate year be and are hereby
ratified and confirmed.

The Report of the Director was also accepted.

The following were unanimously elected to membership in the
Corporation: Mrs. Helen M. Fernald, Westborough, Mass.; Mr. David
McCord, Boston, Mass.

The Corporation then proceeded to the choice of Officers for the
ensuing year, and the following persons were unanimously elected by
ballot: President, Augustus Thorndike, M.D.; Vice President, Samuel
Cabot; Secretary, Edward J. Waterhouse; Treasurer, Ralph B. Williams;
Trustees, John W. Bryant, Mrs. David B. Arnold, Jr., David Cheever,
Robert H. Hallowell, Jr., Mrs. Frederick J. Leviseur, John Lowell, War-
ren Motley, Richard Saltonstall.

The following Resolution was read by the Secretary:

Whereas — Gabriel Farrell was for twenty years the tireless and re-
spected Director of Perkins School for the Blind; a devoted worker in
the broader field of initiating and assisting local, national and interna-
tional organizations; a leader, especially, in the education of "Children
of the Silent Night"; and was in all of these endeavors the honored
representative of this School, carrying far afield the name of Perkins
and its wish to be of service to all the blind; now, therefore, be it

Resolved — that the members of the Corporation of Perkins School
for the Blind, in meeting assembled, do declare their feeling of both
personal and official loss in the death of Dr. Gabriel Farrell, and their
gratitude, in the name of all blind people, for his far-reaching achieve-

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ments and the luster he has added to the influence of Perkins in the field
of work for the blind; and further

Resolved — that this appreciation of his contributions, and sense of
pride in his accomplishments, both at the School and in its name, be
spread upon the Minutes of this meeting and conveyed to his family with
an expression of deep sympathy in a great loss which is widely shared.

There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at two-
thirty p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Edward J. Waterhouse, Secretary

28 137th Annual Report

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT-1 967-1 968

The concern of the Perkins Trustees and Administration for the deaf-
blind children who are the result of the nationwide rubella epidemics
in 1963 and 1964 led to the opening in February 1968 of a day school
in a two-family house adjoining the campus which was purchased by
Perkins a year or so ago. For the first time in our history, we offered
services to pre-school children. This program began with ten children
and was greatly appreciated by their parents. Plans were made to en-
large it this year. Federal funds covered the major share of the cost of
operation.

Meanwhile our architect proceeded with plans for the construction
of two new buildings on the campus to provide for an expanded program
for the deaf-blind. It is expected that the first of these will be ready for
occupancy in August 1969 and the second, a year later.

The continuing success of our films, "The Perkins Story" and
"Children of the Silent Night," is most encouraging. The first of these,
however, is now twelve years old and the kindergarten children it por-
trays have been graduated. Consequently, the Trustees authorized its
replacement during the current year. A third film, "The Legacy of Anne
Sullivan" produced jointly by the Industrial Home for the Blind and
Perkins, was released this August.

The enrollment at the school continues on a somewhat even keel.
However, the percentage of partially-seeing children with learning dis-
abilities increases steadily, though it is now showing some signs of reach-
ing a peak. The number of deaf-blind children has not changed during
the last several years but major expansion is due to take place in 1969
and 1970.

We regret to announce the death of the following members of the
Corporation:

Mr. Fred V. Walsh — South Boston

Mrs. Daniel F. Comstock — South Lincoln

Rev. Gabriel Farrell — Cambridge

Respectfully submitted,

Augustus Thorndike
President

The Perkins Tower Framed by Spring Foliage.

Above — Nelson Holmberg, Raynham, Mass.

Techniques developed for children who have a perceptual dysfunction are proving
valuable for some of our pupils with residual vision.

William Kenney, Norton, Mass. with Miss Sandra Driben.

f&mi!#!mm*ii**»»**m''m't*'imt

Miss Priscilla Chapin measures John Carter of Springfield, Mass.

In the radio shack under Bridgman Cottage, the Radio Club makes
contact with a distant station. Rear (L to R) Roger Cicchese, Bruce
Alexander, Paul Burkhardt, Michael Silver. Front: Douglas Richards,
Alan Dalton.

«OM AUTICS a •&■».... _
l«OR THB BLIND

"Enlightenment for the Blind." An exhibit which was built by National
Aeronautics and Space Administration for the use of the visually
handicapped. It was erected in one of the school gymnasiums in
the summer of 1967.

Stephen Rakes of Virginia has
a little sight and a little hear-
ing— with him is Miss Lieke de
Leuw, an exchange teacher
from The Netherlands.

Mr. Lars Guldager (Supervis-
ing Teacher) and Miss O'Rourke
(Assistant Teacher) give rhythm
lesson to Rayvon Thompson of
Riddleton, Tennessee.

Chan Poh Lin, a deaf-blind high school student from Singapore
"listens to" the speech of her teacher Mr. Leo Queenan.

In our Day Program for Deaf-Blind Pre-Schoolers Parents and Teach-
ers work together with the children.

Balloon fascinates child with partial vision.

Mrs. Virginia Guldager with one of our pre-school day pupils.

John Pavao of Dighton, Mass. at a Potter's wheel.

Rear: L to R: William T. Heisler (Director of Teacher Training), Felix Poh-
Yirenkyi (Ghana), V. Gopinathan Nair (India), Brother Augustus (Malay-
sia), Charles Moore (Australia), Brother Girard (Viet Nam), Vispi J. Mirza
(India), Mrs. Rose M. Vivian (Principal, Deaf-Blind Department) — Front:
Ursula Sigmundt (W. Germany), Marion N. Obeng (Ghana), Anadi C.
Mulcerji (India), Marie Kennedy (Australia), Lielce de Leuw (Netherlands).
Missing from photograph, David H. Blezard (England).

A team from Perkins visited Japan in November 1967 at the in-
vitation of the Minister of Education. While there they took part in
a ground breaking ceremony at the Yokohama Christian School for
the Blind. On the far side of the table are Dr. Sadaka Imamura, Dr.
Waterhouse, Benjamin Smith, Robert Smithdas and Herbert Lehman.

One of the highlights of the Japanese trip was when Robert Smith-
das met Prince and Princess Hitachi at the Talcarazulca Opera House
in Tokyo.

Standing: Robert Farrell, Paul Nadeau, Thomas Berry, Michael Martino,
Brian Margie, Gail Gennett, Richard Briggs, William Fischer, Walden
Chin, Ralph Antonetti, Alan Dalton, Donald Deignan. Seated: Jo-Ann
King, Charlotte Bicknell, Claire DiSanza, Carol Crowley, Shielah Carroll,
Carolyn Cassil, Donna Veno, Chaire L'Ecuyer.

Helen Keller died June I, 1968. Here she is shown about the turn of
the century with her teacher Anne Sullivan.

J. Stephenson Hemphill
Bursar 1938-1968

Fabian Bachrach

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REPORT OF THE BURSAR

For the Fiscal Year 1 967-68

The writing of this report is my last official act as Bursar of the
school, bringing to a close a career of thirty pleasant years. I have a few
things to say about those years, together with a few "then and now"
comparisons. They belong more appropriately at the end of the report
than at the beginning; so let us give our attention first to the business of
the year just ended, which as usual has been more interesting, more
productive and more expensive than any of its predecessors.

The budget approved for our fiscal year 1967-68 totaled $2,384,-
530. This amount included $2,351,405 for salaries and expenses, $33,-
125 for new equipment. The budget was 15.8% higher than the total
actual operating expenses for 1966-67. Gross payroll increased 15.3%
and was responsible for 69.5% of the total budget increase as com-
pared with 82.8% last year and 64.4% the year before. Operating ex-
penses other than payroll increased 13.5%, the largest advance in at
least a half dozen years.

Unusual developments which affected the personnel policies for
large segments of our staff and influenced radical payroll changes will
be discussed in a later section. Generally, the increase in expenses was
consistent with program refinement and continuing inflation, but certain
items were affected by additional factors. The publicity section of ad-
ministration expense was up because Lantern circulation is up. The pro-
gram of the Deaf-Blind Department was expanding in preparation for
handling the rubella wave; and enrollment of trainees in the programs
both for teachers of the blind and teachers of the deaf-blind was larger.
Basic food prices were expected to increase 5 to 8% during the year.
Retirement plan and F.I.C.A. premiums would go up in proportion to
payroll. The Trustees decided that the school should carry a share of
employees' Blue Cross/Blue Shield premiums. The new equipment
budget reflected the need for modernizing in practically all departments.
Of the gross budget, an estimated $18,835 would be charged to
Howe Press for services supplied by the school; leaving a net budget of
$2,365,695 to be covered by endowment and tuition income. Enrollment
stood at 299 students on November 1, as compared with 306 students
last year and 300 the year before. I reported a year ago that the con-
tinuing rise in operating costs necessitated a vote by the Trustees in
June of 1966, to increase the rates we must charge for tuition and board,
effective September 1, 1967. It was seen by May 1967, when the pre-
liminary budget for fiscal 1967-68 was approved that the 1966 action

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was inadequate, and a larger increase effective September 1, 1967 was
announced. Tabulating of the figures emphasizes their significance.

Tuition Tuition

Effective Effective

1965-66 September 1, 1967

Blind Boarding $3,700 $5,000

Blind Day $3,100 $4,000

Deaf-Blind $5,000 $6,000

FINAL OUTCOME

When the books were closed on August 31, actual operating ex-
penses totaled $2,288,776, of which $18,892 was allocated to Howe
Press for services rendered, leaving net expenses of $2,269,884. This
divided into $2,245,142 for salaries and expenses, and $24,742 for
new equipment. We had underspent the budget by 4% and income had
exceeded expenses by $86,006. The revised tuition charges, wise
handling of our funds by the Treasurer's Office and the Finance Com-
mittee, and continued careful management by department heads had
averted a deficit, and produced a result much needed to offset red figures
of former years.

Most salary budgets were underspent due to continuing vacancies,
which great effort failed to fill. The largest of the surpluses occurred in
the Literary and Household Departments. Most expense budgets were
underspent modestly, but several were left with large balances. Adminis-
tration Expense was one, because film production did not match expecta-
tions; Retirement Plan was another, because computer trouble at Equi-
table prevented our receiving the final premium statement in time for
payment.

The Deaf-Blind Department, in spite of the higher costs of its ex-
panded program, continued to operate upon a self-supporting basis,
with the help of $41,322 from the principal of the Deaf -Blind Fund,
and Federal funds (under Tide I) in the amount of $18,553 which
were made available by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

PERSONNEL AND PAYROLL: NEW PROBLEMS

Perkins advances with the times because of an able and hardwork-
ing staff. We face new challenges and progress with them, whether the
activity be involved with education, extracurricular activities, main-
tenance or office procedures. Paralleling our philosophy of professional
advancement is the Perkins attitude with respect to adequate salary

Perkins School for the Blind 31

schedules. These must provide incentive and security and, of course, be
competitive.

Our practice of conducting annual compensation surveys for all
personnel categories becomes more and more valuable, both to our em-
ployees and to Perkins. The surveys are handled by the Director for
faculty and professional staff and by the Personnel Officer for all others.
Findings in both cases are then studied administratively and presented to
the Trustees for action. Findings this year were sensational in most cases,
as will be seen below; but the most radical change was imposed by Fed-
eral legislation. The Fair Labor Standards Act (hereafter referred to as
FLSA) was amended in September 1966, to include nonprofit schools
and colleges, effective February 1, 1967. All but administrative, execu-
tive, teaching and professional staff are affected.

Faculty and professional staff were the first group for whom
1967-68 salary decisions were made. Increased salaries promised to
teachers in Massachusetts and neighboring States were far in excess of
what we were paying. Our Trustees approved a new starting salary for
teachers with Bachelor's degrees of $5,735.00 effective September 1968
and $6,252 effective September 1969. While these rates are currently
competitive, further increases in the near future will probably be needed.

FLSA regulations cover Office and Library, Maintenance, House-
hold and Laundry personnel. The basic requirement is a maximum 40^
hour week for regular employees and an 8-hour day for casual em-
ployees at regular rates of pay, with premium pay for overtime. These
principles have been in effect at Perkins for Office and Library, Main-
tenance and Laundry personnel, but have not been practiced in the
cottages because of the broken hours. Practically all of our personnel
has been on a salary basis, and only the few hourly workers have kept
time sheets. FLSA requires proof of hours worked and wages paid to
each covered employee, so now many employees have to keep and sub-
mit time sheets, which at first swamped our Accounting Office. Payroll
personnel have been added and everything seems to be under control,
although procedures are continually being studied for refinement.

The second important factor in FLSA regulations is the minimum
wage. This brought no problems, because we always have exceeded the
minimum in all employee categories. It has been our payroll philosophy
to match the average rates of pay for equivalent job specifications found
through our survey to be in effect elsewhere.

There are good and bad factors among the effects of FLSA regula-
tions upon our cottage organization. The Cottage System, which com-
bines students and resident staff in cottages appropriately sized to create
a home and family atmosphere, is a cherished Perkins asset, which we

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all work hard to maintain. Its success in the vital part it plays in the care
and training of our children is due to the fact that the people who do the
work are also members of the cottage families. Salaries have been fairly
satisfactory through the years, and the amount of time required daily to
keep things running has not been a significant issue. Housemothers,
cooks and maids have made their positions happy combinations of
home and occupation. There is no denying, however, that in recent years
cottage staff vacancies have been increasingly difficult to fill, and the
reason clearly has been the longer hours as compared with those in in-
dustry.

Conforming to FLSA regulations without changing the atmosphere
of the cottage plan is indeed a challenge. We are wrestling with it, but as
yet cannot claim success. Note the changes. The normal work week is
set at 40 hours, which means five 8-hour days, with premium pay for
overtime. Our cottages are occupied 7 days each week while school is
in session, so this means that for 2 days out of each week there must be
relief housemothers, relief cooks and relief maids. Total cottage person-
nel consisted of 55 full-time and 7 part-time women, plus 3 janitors, as
this school year began. The organization required under FLSA to handle
the same duties should consist of 73 full-time women and 4 janitors.
After a full year of endeavor, we have not yet succeeded in filling all
positions. Survey increases for the former staff would have added $17,-
700 to the budget, but compliance with FLSA regulations was estimated
to add $84,660 more with all positions filled.

Of course, there are benefits under FLSA, especially for the em-
ployees. It was always disappointing to us that we were not able to es-
tablish a 5-day work week for cottage personnel. Now FLSA insists that
they have it, regardless of management problems. Because of premium
pay for overtime, which is regularly required, their individual earnings
are higher. The disadvantages are just as real. Earnings are based solely
upon hours worked, so each employee must keep and submit work
records on which hours are recorded, and pay is received only for work
done. Long ago, Perkins inaugurated for members of its cottage staff a
guaranteed annual wage so that income was steady, regardless of sum-
mer and other recesses. Now with approximately 37 weeks of work per
year, each individual must budget earnings of those 37 weeks to last for
52. To be sure, they receive more pay in 37 weeks than they formerly
did in 52, but their budgeting problems are greater.

The mother of a family would have a hard time confining her
efforts to an 8-hour day. The same is true of senior housemothers, 1st
assistant housemothers and relief housemothers at Perkins. So many
problems were foreseen in endeavoring to adjust the routines of these

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three positions to FLSA regulations that a request for a review of the
situation was submitted by our attorneys to the Solicitor's Office of the
U. S. Department of Labor, and a special ruling resulted which waives
the regulations for this group. This may be the main factor in saving
the Cottage System and it is appreciated both by the Administration and
the housemothers themselves.

Attendants of Deaf-Blind children also are covered by FLSA regu-
lations. The problems are somewhat the same and a reorganization of
routines has been necessary to facilitate their conforming. Here again,
however, premium pay for overtime is a payroll factor which happily
benefits the attendants, but increases the burden upon the budget.

PERKINS CONTRIBUTION TO BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD MEMBERSHIPS

An important decision made by the Trustees, in connection with
action on payroll proposals effective September 1, 1967, provided for a
Perkins contribution toward the premiums of staff members enrolled in
the Perkins Blue Cross/Blue Shield group. The contribution amounts
to $5.00 per month per enrolled staff member. The employee does not
receive this assistance in cash, but rather the monthly deduction of the
premium on his salary check stub is $5.00 less. This action is in keeping
with practices we have seen developing on other campuses.

ACCIDENTS

A number of staff members have suffered duty-connected accidents
in recent years which cause us grave concern. Our insurance company
gives us expert counsel on safety devices and other means of accident
prevention; department heads and other supervisors ar6 constantly alert
for danger spots and prevention improvement; we believe our employees
to be reasonably careful. Still we have been having serious accidents;
usually one of a kind, first-time incidents requiring hospitalization, re-
sulting in much loss of working time, with some cases of permanent
injury. There is nothing more to say about this here except to report it
as a regrettable fact, and give assurance that every administrative effort
will continue toward reducing and preventing accidents.

PRE-EMPLOYMENT PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS

It has long been our practice to require a physical examination of
all prospective employees, except faculty and professional personnel.
The purpose is to discover before employment decisions are made, health
conditions which might lead to accidents or otherwise indicate that the
employment might create unwise hazards. In the beginning, a Water-

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town physician was on call for performing this service in our dispensary.
Later the responsibility was transferred to our attending physician as-
sisted by our nurse, but that arrangement has been crowding their sched-
ule too much. This has resulted either in interference with their service to
the students, or the need to commence employment before physical
examinations have been made. A new arrangement has now been worked
out, therefore, with a physician in nearby Brighton, who specializes in
industrial health. He will handle the program by appointment at his
office and it is everyone's expectation that we can resume the pre-em-
ployment feature of these important examinations.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Our Special Projects Program was extensive and significant. Prog-
ress is very much the mood at Perkins these days, focusing attention
upon both plant adequacy and condition. Year by year more renovating
is needed, more improving and more changing or adding of facilities.
The need is often so immediate and the variety so involved that the
number of projects approved and carried out in any one fiscal year is no
longer significant; nor is the total cost. Twenty-two projects were ap-
proved by the Trustees. The estimated total cost added up to $289,-
006.00 of which $189,369.00 would be charged to the Reserve for
Maintenance and Replacement, $93,933 would be charged to Income
and $5,704.00 to Unrestricted Capital. These figures do not include
new building.

Obviously, there is room in this report for only the briefest de-
scriptions, although a few projects are worth recording in some detail.
Several years ago we purchased the old Carroll House at the corner of
Riverside and Royal Streets to protect both sides of our Riverside Street
entrance. Space on campus was so short for housing of the additional
household staff required under FLSA and for accommodating the Pre-
school Program for Deaf-Blind Children, that this house had to be
renovated for combination dormitory, classroom and conference pur-
poses. Last year we reported purchase of the property at the southeast
corner of North Beacon Street and Beechwood Avenue. The house was
known to be so dilapidated that we could not use it. After the purchase
its condition was found to be so hazardous that the remaining occupant
was asked to move, and the house was demolished and removed.

Last year Dr. Waterhouse reported the decision of the Trustees to
construct two new buildings to accommodate our expanded program for
deaf-blind children. An up-to-date survey and charting of campus topog-
raphy, buildings, driveways, trees, etc., was necessary for accurate

Perkins School for the Blind 35

planning; and borings were required to determine soil and water condi-
tions, which would govern the design of the new buildings. This work
was started in the summer of 1967, but most of it was handled as a
1967-68 special project.

After all these years, machine dishwashing has come to Perkins,
and at great expense. Hand dishwashing by student crews, so long a
part of our general training program, gave way to the safer health po-
tential possible with the high temperature water used by machines.
Adapting our dish pantries and our dining room routines to the new
equipment and its use was a man-sized job. Many problems were an-
ticipated and many developed, but in general our machine-dishwashing
program is operating smoothly; health security is greatly improved, and
students are spared their former efforts; but it cannot be said that staff
labor and time are reduced.

The Bursar's Cottage situated in the northeast corner of the cam-
pus had been scheduled for renovating this summer to coincide with
the change in Bursars. Built in 1940, when workmanship and material
were still of that good pre-war quality, it has been a beautiful and com-
fortable home for me and my family in the warm, friendly atmosphere
of this campus. As plans for the new building in the northeast corner of
the campus developed, it became clear that either the new construction
would cramp the Bursar's Cottage or the cottage would interfere with
the planning. This resulted in a decision to move the cottage to the
southeast corner of the campus where space was available near the cot-
tage occupied by the Assistant Director. This enlarged and complicated
the original project considerably. Architectural thinking, skillful moving,
and considerable work at the new site were required. As I write this,
the project is well along, but behind schedule. When the cottage is
finally ready for the Baumgartners to move in, the groundwork will have
been laid for much comfort and happiness.

Approval was given at the January meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee for important repairs to the lower school fleche. At the time, the
need seemed to be for repairs only, such as replacing of some structural
timbers suffering the advanced stages of dry rot. When the work was
started after the close of school in June, workmen discovered so much
more deterioration that complete rebuilding of the fleche was necessary.
A huge crane removed it so it could be taken to the yard of the con-
tractor, where piece by piece it was rebuilt, including replacing of the
lead sheathing on the spire. Wood preservatives have been used gen-
erously; steel has been substituted for wood where possible. The project
became an expensive one, but our beautiful fleche should not require
heavy maintenance again for many years. Its appearance is unchanged.

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The staff suite on the first floor of May Cottage was converted to a
housekeeping apartment this summer in anticipation of needing more
campus quarters for married staff.

Those are the highlights among special projects. Routine special
maintenance included — completing replacement of linoleum floors in
the cottages and of the driveway lights; improving of lighting and other
facilities in certain classrooms; completing conversion of Bennett Cot-
tage for more extensive use as a school building; replacing heating and
water lines in certain areas; replacing with concrete some uneven and
dangerous brick and blacktop foot walks; large quantities of the usual
types of summer carpentry and painting; and so on and on.

The two new buildings are of course the big project for this year
and for several years to come. The combined thinking which have gone
into them and which they will continue to require are proving the Trust-
ees Building Committee, the Director and his Assistant, some of the
faculty, the new Bursar and his colleagues, the Superintendent of Main-
tenance, the architect and the contractor to be quite a team. As I write
this, construction of the northeast building is underway and plans for
the north building are well along.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Reference to several other matters is necessary in order to round
out the status of special projects, as I leave them in the hands of my
successor. First, there is the matter of safety. Rendering our school
buildings and cottages as safe as possible for the evacuation of occupants
in case of fire has had priority attention among our special projects since
1959-60. Following the lead of Massachusetts Department of Safety
Engineers, and our recommendations, the Trustees have encouraged
promotion of this program with a minimum of delay. According to our
understanding of the possibilities, all has been done that can be done in
the school buildings and the Lower School cottages, including Bennett
and Keller-Macy. Bedroom corridor doors have been replaced and
transoms closed up in the eight Upper School cottages, but the stair-
wells in the Upper School cottages still need attention.

Thus the highlights of the year seem to qualify it for rating as one
of the biggest and best to date. There remains the interesting task of
drawing some thirty-year comparisons and recording a few personal
observations.

THIRTY-YEAR COMPARISONS: 1938-39 THROUGH 1967-68
Any situation would change over a period of thirty years, so I
suppose we should not be surprised at the differences revealed by com-

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paring Perkins of 1967-68 with that of 1938-39, my first full year as
Bursar. Both my recollections and the Annual Reports of the intervening
period attest to the fact that under the leadership of two great Directors,
Dr. Farrell and Dr. Waterhouse, great strides forward have been made
by Perkins in the education of blind and deaf-blind children, benefiting
not only our own students but those of the nation and the world as well.
These advances in the educational process have required plant im-
provements and additions of considerable magnitude. Manpower needs
have grown in all categories as program and plant have expanded, as
plant has aged, and as employment conditions have been refined either
by our own initiative or government regulation. A measure of the ex-
pansion and complication of business responsibilities during this period
is evident in the growth of business office staff from 4 to 15 persons. Of
course, the effects of World War II and our fast-moving, inflated econ-
omy are also reflected in a comparison of current statistics with those of
thirty years ago. Enrollment soared to a peak of 321 in 1961-62, at the
height of the retrolental fibroplasia wave; and remains near the 300 mark.
With this brief introduction, a few figures will tell the rest of the
story. Note that while enrollment is 21% higher, staff has grown 73%,
and operating costs many times more.

1938-39 1967-68

Student Enrollment

247

299

Staff Count

188

325

Operating Cost: School

$336,036

$2,288,776

Per Capita Cost: Blind Boarding Student

1,360

7,654

Tuition & Board Charge: Blind Boarding

Student

600

5,000

The last two lines above are the significant ones. They confirm my
recollection that as I was absorbing the interesting details of Perkins
finances during my early years, endowment income was able to carry
more than half of our operating costs, 55.9% to be exact. Although
gifts and endowment income have grown steadily in a very gratifying
manner, through the generosity of our friends and the wisdom of our
finance committee, we have watched the ratio steadily decline until now
we are able to carry barely Vt, of the costs (34.6% ), resulting in a very
high charge for tuition and board, which is still climbing. One wonders
what it might be without the influence of inflation. Certainly a more
reasonable figure.

A partial breakdown of the total operating costs from the third
line of the table above is just as interesting:

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1938-39 1967-68

Salaries

$192,379

$1,647,731

Fringe Benefits

20,572

157,453

Departmental Expenses

81,929

362,646

New Equipment

3,048

24,742

Special Projects

8,270

289,006

Depreciation

30,095

72,000

Raw Food: Per Capita Cost

per day

39 cents

1.02

Salaries thirty years ago were responsible for 57% of the budget,
as compared with 72% now. The ratio of fringe benefits to salaries
hardly changed at all, remaining at approximately 10%. However, in
1938-39 two-thirds of total fringe benefits were accounted for by direct
pensions, the balance being the retirement plan premiums; now 90% is
made up of retirement plan premiums and social security taxes, with
direct pensions and hospitalization accounting for a small balance.
While salaries were multiplying SVi times during the period, depart-
mental expenses were growing only AV2 times larger. Our 1912 plant
was only 25 years old in 1938, and the amount we found it necessary
to spend for additional furnishings under New Equipment, and heavy
maintenance under Special Projects, was relatively small. Note how
both of these figures have grown by 1967-68. We ate well thirty years
ago at a cost of .39 per day per fed person for raw food; today we
eat rather better but at nearly 3 times the cost.

One other comparison seems to me both interesting and important.
Our Deaf-Blind Department was already very active in 1938, and start-
ing to fill its role of international leadership. The total cost of operating
the Deaf-Blind Department that year, salaries and expenses, was $9,952.
The total for the year just ended was $204,674.

So much for figures, which have played a very important part in
my Perkins career. They measure the quality of management and some
degree of progress, but they do not explain what has happened nor
supply the reasons.

In order to produce as accurate a comparison as possible it was
necessary to do a certain amount of research and reassembling of data,
because many changes in record-keeping have occurred through the
years. This took me delving into hand-written records of thirty years ago
and the more I searched the more I encountered the names of people,
mostly staff but occasionally students, who were the life of Perkins then.
Among them were quite a few who, in the good Perkins tradition, had
already spent long careers at Perkins, and were soon to retire after
thirty, forty and even fifty years of service. I did not need this reminder

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to realize that everything that Perkins is, results from the love and ef-
forts of the people, in whose hands its welfare rests — Trustees, Director,
staff and students. Each generation keeps alive the aspirations and in-
spirations it has inherited, adding to Perkins' great history its answers
to the challenges of the times it has had the privilege of facing.

I have enjoyed every minute of my turn, and Perkins has had my
best. Now is the time for memories and mine are good — some of things,
but most of people — those whose trust and expectations challenged my
best, and those whose assistance made my best possible. I am grateful
to all of them for that and for their warm friendship. For those who
now carry on, I pray God's blessing, and with them I leave my sincere
affection.

J. S. Hemphill, Bursar

40 137th Annual Report

PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: A BRIEF HISTORY

While no one person can be said to have been the sole Founder
of Perkins, the first man known to have recognized the need for a School
for blind children in New England was Dr. John D. Fisher who, as a
medical student in Paris, had visited L'Institution National des Jeunes
Aveugles (The National Institution for Blind Youth). This was, and
is, the parent of all schools for the blind on earth. It was founded in
1784, five years before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by Valen-
tin Hauy, the pioneer in whose footsteps walk all those who teach blind
girls and boys.

In 1830 the Corporation elected its first officers and twelve Trus-
tees, one of whom was Horace Mann. Their first task was to find a man
who would set their ideas to work.

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been looking for all the time!" said Fisher. The response was immediate:
A "meeting of flint with steel," as Howe's daughter Laura described it
some years later.

Without realizing it, the Founding Fathers had made an historic de-
cision.

The Howe Regime 1831-1876

Lessons from Europe

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The First Classes

These quotations are from Annual Reports of Perkins School for the Blind.

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The Move to Pearl Street

Public Demonstrations

Early Books and Equipment

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Music

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four hours daily to intellectual labor; four hours to vocal and instrumen-
tal music; four to recreation and eating; four hours to manual labor and
eight to sleep."

1837 — A Memorable Year

An important event took place in 1837. Among the pupils admitted
that year was Laura Bridgman, a seven-year-old child from New Hamp-
shire. Laura, the first deaf-blind child ever to be successfully educated,
was Dr. Howe's own personal pupil.

Consequently, he decided he would have a demonstration Shop
where blind men and women could obtain specific training in useable
skills. He desired strongly to avoid patterns which he had observed in

46 1 37th Annual Report

Europe in which the majority of the adult blind were employed perma-
nently in sheltered workshops.

The Move to South Boston

The Anagnos Years

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First Kindergarten for the Blind

Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

48 137th Annual Report

Faculty Growth

Edward E. Allen, Educator

Dr. Edward E. Allen is responsible for many firsts in the education
of the blind. His strong interest in physical activity for youth led him to

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appoint the first trained physiotherapist in any school for the blind in
1908.

By the end of the first century of the school's history when Dr. Al-
len retired, the shape of Perkins as we know it today, its ideals and its
standards were firmly established.

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sors: such as Laura Bridgman, A. W. Penniman, Stephen Blaisdell,
Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller.

Second Century

The Perkins "Lantern"

The Fifth Director

As a result of this changing economic situation, one of the first acts
of the fifth Director, Dr. Edward J. Waterhouse, who succeeded Dr.

Perkins School for the Blind 51

While the last decade is too close to the present for evaluation, cer-
tain events may be recorded. The work of Dr. Hayes, encouraged by
both Dr. Allen and Dr. Farrell,, led in turn to the establishment of a
guidance department employing several clinical psychologists. Dr. Allen
had added a psychometrist to the staff, a practice which Dr. Farrell had
continued. In the 1950's Guidance Counselling became an important
part of the School program.

The Retrolental-fibroplasia Wave

The first child to be admitted to Perkins whose blindness was
caused by retrolental fibroplasia was enrolled in 1946. This disease
which resulted from excessive exposure of prematurely born infants to
oxygen was soon to add thousands of girls and boys to schools and
classes for the blind in the 1950's. Fortunately this disease was rapidly
brought under control and it is a rare event for a child to lose his sight
for this reason nowadays. At Perkins, where the enrollment had been
steadily declining, an immediate increase was experienced. Between
1946 and 1951, while the Upper School population decreased by 28 the
Lower School increased by 32. Soon the total school population, which
had declined to 234 in 1943, was in excess of 300.

The Deaf-Blind Department

52 1 37th Annual Report

tional shortage of trained teachers of the deaf — the source upon which
Perkins has mainly drawn for its teachers for its deaf-blind children. It
became necessary for Perkins to establish its own program for training
teachers of the deaf-blind which was worked out in cooperation with
Boston University in 1955. A program of research was also established
in the Deaf-Blind Department at this time. The Department grew from
five pupils in 1953 to forty pupils in 1969, making it by far the largest
in the world. It included over one-third of all deaf-blind pupils in special
programs in the United States. In February 1968 a day program for
pre-school deaf-blind pupils was opened to accommodate local victims
of the 1963-64 maternal rubella epidemic.

Education of the Public

Overseas Interests

As has been mentioned, Michael Anagnos worked out a coopera-
tive arrangement with schools in Europe for the exchange of equipment
and literature. However, it was with the establishment of a teacher-
training program at Harvard in the 1920's that opportunities for serving
blind children overseas really began. Ever since this course started ap-
plications have been received from candidates from other countries and

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by 1960 there were graduates of the two teacher-training programs
teaching blind children in between forty and forty-five foreign lands.

Unchanging Pupils

137th Annual Report

OFFICERS 1830-1968

1830-1837, Jonathan Phillips
1838-1839, Samuel Appleton
1840-1846, Peter C. Brooks
1847-1854, Richard Fletcher
1855-1861, Edward Brooks
1861-1869, Samuel May
1870-1871, Martin Brimmer

PRESIDENTS

1872
1898
1930
1946
1953
1954

1897, Samuel Eliot

1930, Francis H. Appleton

1946, Robert H. Hallowell

1953, Reginald Frrz, M.D.

1954, Warren Motley
Augustus Thorndike,

M.D.

VICE-PRESIDENTS

1897-1911, Amory A. Lawrence
1912-1913, N. P. Hallowell
1914-1921, George H. Richards
1922-1929, William L. Richardson
1930-1946, G. Peabody Gardiner
1946-1956, Ralph Lowell
1956- Samuel Cabot, Jr.

TREASURERS

1830-1839, Richard Tucker
1840-1846, Peter R. Dalton
1847-1861, Thomas B. Wales
1862-1868, William Claflin
1869-1872, William Endicott
1873-1879, Hbnry Endicott
1880-1881, Patrick T. Jackson

1881-1902, Edward Jackson
1903-1904, Patrick T. Jackson
1904-1916, William Endicott
1917-1935, Albert Thorndike
1935-1945, Roger Amory
1945-1950, John P. Chase
1950- Ralph B. Williams

SECRETARIES AND DIRECTORS

1831-1876, Samuel Gridley Howe
1876-1906, Michael Anagnos
1907-1931, Edward E. Allen

1931-1951, Gabriel Farrell
1951- Edward J. Waterhouse

DIRECTORS EMERITI

1931-1950, Edward E. Allen 1952-1968, Gabriel Farrell

Perkins School for the Blind

TRUSTEES 1830-1968

Achin, Roland M.

1960-

Fay, Rosamond

1918-1920,

Adams, Melvin O.

1901-1903

1921-1922

Allen, Dr. Henry F.

1965-

Faxon, Henry H.

1932-1942

Ames, Frederick

1886-1888

Fisher, John D.

1833-1850

Amory, Robert

1920-1921

Fitz, Reginald (Dr.)

1943-1953

Amory, Roger

1934-35,

Fitzpatrick, Paul E.

1921-1940

1945-46

Fitzpatrick, Thomas B.

1912-1918

Andrew, John A.

1859-1860

Flanigan, Rt. Rev. Charles R.

Angier, Mrs. George

1913-1921

1958-1962

Apthorp, Robert E.

1866-1882

Frothingham, Rev. Paul

Appleton, Francis H.

1902-1929

Revere

1903-1926

Armstrong, Samuel T.

1833-34

Arnold, Mrs. David B. Jr.

1965-

Gage, Mrs. Homer

1933-1948

Gardiner, Charles

1895-1908

Baker, Joseph

1837

Gardiner, Robert H.

1899-1901

Baylies, Walter Cabot

1906-1919

Gardner, G. Peabody Jr.

1922-1945

Bellows, A. J.

1855

Gleason, Miss Ellen H.

1939-1945

Benedict, Wm. Leonard

1902-1908

Glover, Joseph B.

1875-1902

Book, Miss Dorothy L.

1949-1953

Glover, Joseph H.

1873-1875

Bouve, Thomas T.

1851-54,

Goodwin, Ozias

1836-1846

1861-71

Gray, Thomas G.

1842-1845

Brooks, Edward

1833-1846

Brooks, Edward

1891-1898

Hale, George S.

1865-1875

Brooks, Francis

1866-79,

Hallowell, N. P.

1898-1914

1883-91

Hallowell, Robert H.

1914-1930,

Bryant, John W.

1953-

1940-1956

Buckingham, J. T.

1851-1852

Honorary Trustee 1956-1958

Hallowell, Robert H. Jr.

1956-

Campbell, Mrs. Frederick W.

Heard, J. Theodore

1875-1906

1948-49

Higginson, Henry Lee

1872-1883

* Cabot, Samuel Jr.

1952-1956,

Hill, Hamilton A.

1871-1873

1961-1965

Holmes, Henry W. LL.D.

1941-1952

Cary, T. G.

1834-1859

Homans, John

1833-1847

Chandler, Theophilus

1848-1865

Hornblower, Henry

1929-1933

Chase, John P.

1940-1945

Howe, Henry Marion

1893-1902

Cheever, David

1946-

Howe, Solomon H.

1872-1875

Connolly, Rev. John J.

1945-1956

Hunnewell, Francis W.

1898-1903

Cornell, William M.

1856-57

Cutler, Pliny

1833-1835

Jackson, Edward

1903-1906

Jackson, William M.

1855-1856

Daley, Mrs. Francis J.

1935-1939

Jarvis, Edward

1853-1854

Danielson, Mrs. Richard E.

1934-1961

Johnson, Rev. Herbert S.

1906-1907

Denny, George P. (Dr.)

1942-43

Dixwell, J. J.

1847-1851

Kolligian, Jack H.

1964-

Dowd, Mrs. John F.

1937-1939

Krock, Aaron

1964-1965

Druker, Bertram

1962-1964

Drury, Theodore F.

1943-1945

Lawrence, Abbott

1833

Dwight, John S.

1875-1893

Lawrence, Amory A.
Leviseur, Mrs. Frederick J.

1911-1912

Eliot, Samuel A.

1840-41,

(Nee RosannaThorndike)

1855-56

, 1865-72

1933-1941

Emerson, George B.

1851-1860

1948-

Emery, Isaac

1852-1853

Livermore, Thomas L.

1896-1898

Emmons, Nathaniel H.

1852-1853

Loring, Benjamin

1849-1852

Endicott, William

1888-1911

Loud, Samuel P.

1833-1850

Engelhardt, M.

1883-84

Lowell, Augustus

1867-1869,

Endicott, William

1917-1934

1870-1874

Lowell, James Arnold

1908-1926

Fairbanks, Stephen

1842-1866

Lowell, John A.

1835-1836

Fay, Thomas J.

1918-1922

Lowell, John

1956-

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Lowell, Ralph 1926-1946

Lyman, Joseph 1853-1870

Lyne, Daniel J. 1937-1951

Maliotis, Charles 1945-1947

Mann, Horace 1833-1851

Mason, William P. 1833-1835

May, Samuel 1834-1861

McGrath, Michael F. 1951-1953

Means, James H. 1879-1883

Mills, James K. 1838-1848

*Motley, Warren 1933-

Mudge, E. R. 1866-1871

Neal, Paul L. 1949-1953

O'Connor, George P. (Rev.)

Osgood, Charles E.

Paine, Robert
Palmer, Julius
Parkman, Mrs. Henry Jr.
Peabody, Andrew P.

Perkins, Edward N.

Perkins, William
Phillips, John C.
Phillips, Stephen C.
Prescott, William H.
Purdon, Miss Maria
Putnam, Mrs. George T.
Putnam, Mrs. James J.

Quincy, Josiah Jr.
Quincy, Samuel M.

Rantoul, Robert
Richards, George H.
Richardson, William L.
Rogers, Miss Annette P.
Rogers, Mrs. Robert E.

1925-1943
1922-1925

1881-1883

1860-1861

1945-1948

1875-1881,

1886-1893

1866-1868,

1869-1899

1856-1861

1882-1885

1833-1834

1833-1839

1921-1932

1923-1934

1908-1913

1861-1880
1881-1887

1833-1851
1896-1922
1888-1932
1907-1918
1935-1937

Rogers, William B.
Rotch, Benjamin S.
Russell, George R.

Russell, Henry S.
Saltonstall, Leverett

Saltonstall, Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, Richard M.
Shaw, G. Howard
Shelnutt, Clarence B.
Sherrill, Henry R. (Rev.)
Silverman, Isadore J.

Sleeper, Jacob
Sloane, Marshall M.
Smiley, Mrs. Gilbert

Snelling, Samuel G.
Swartz, George

Stephenson, John H.

Stone, Henry
Sturgis, James
Sumner, Charles

Temple, Thomas F.
Thaxter, Joseph B.
Thompson, Camerson S.
*Thorndike, Albert
*Thorndike, Augustus, M.D.

Thorndike, S. Lothrop
Ticknor, W. D.

Wales, George W.
Weinberg, Mrs. Carol
Wetherbee, John H.
Winthrop, Robert
Wright, Miss Lucy

Zeilinski, John

1862-1866
1858-1875
1847-1860,
1862-1866
1885-1889

1884-1886,

1889-1895

1922-1939

1946-

1899-1922

1854-1855

1965-1966

1926-1933

1953-1956,

1957-1960

1855

1960-1965

1953-1956,

1957-1960

1869-1886

1953-1956,

1957-1962

1863-64,

1865-66

1893-1896

1857-1888

1846-1853

1886-1899
1856-1866
1947-1949
1911-1917

1953-1954
1887-1911
1854-1864

1875-1896
1962-1964
1883-1886
1836-1841
1931-1935

1936-1937

* See Officers 1830-1968.

Perkins School for the Blind

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION
1968-69

PRESIDENT

Augustus Thorndike, M.D.

VICE-PRESIDENT

Samuel Cabot, Jr.

TREASURER

Ralph B. Williams

SECRETARY

Edward J. Waterhouse

ASSISTANT TREASURER

John W. Bryant

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Dr. Henry F. Allen*
Mrs. David B. Arnold, Jr.
Roland M. Achin*
John W. Bryant
David Cheever
Robert H. Hallo well, Jr.

Jack H. Kolligian*
Mrs. Frederick J. Leviseur
John Lowell
Warren Motley
Richard Saltonstall
Rev. W. Chester Jostrom*

STANDING COMMITTEES

Executive

Augustus Thorndike, M.D.

Ex-officio
Ralph B. Williams

Ex-officio
Edward J. Waterhouse

Ex-officio
John W. Bryant
Samuel Cabot, Jr.
Mrs. Frederick J. Leviseur
Warren Motley

Finance

Ralph B. Williams

Ex-officio
Samuel Cabot, Jr.
John Lowell
Richard Saltonstall

Visiting

The Officers and Trustees

* Appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth.

137th Annual Report

MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION

1968

Achin, Roland M., Lowell
Achin, Mrs. Roland M., Lowell
Allen, Mrs. Frank G„ Boston
Allen, Dr. Henry Freeman, Boston
Allen, Mrs. Henry Freeman, Boston
Allen, Mrs. Philip R., Walpole
Amory, Robert, Jr., Washington, D. C.
Andrews, Dr. Francis M., Baltimore, Md.
Andrews, Mrs. Francis M., Baltimore, Md.
Angney, D. Harry, Wellesley Hills
Appleton, Mrs. Francis Henry, Brookline
Arnold, David B., Jr., Concord
Arnold, Mrs. David B., Jr., Concord

Babson, Donald P., Wellesley
Balboni, Dr. Victor G., Boston
Ballantine, Arthur A., New York
Barnard, John, Jr., Scituate
Barnett, Dr. M. Robert, New York
Beatley, Prof. Ralph, Cambridge
Belash, Mrs. Constantine A., Boston
Bird, Miss Anna C, East Walpole
Bird, Mrs. Francis W„ East Walpole
Brooks, Lawrence G., West Medford
Brooks, Mrs. L. G., West Medford
Brown, Mrs. C. R., New Haven, Conn.
Bryant, John W., Beverly Farms
Bryant, Mrs. John W., Beverly Farms
Burns, Warren, New York
Burr, I. Tucker, Walpole, N. H.
Byers, Dr. Randolph K., Milton
Byers, Mrs. Randolph K., Milton

Cabot, Samuel, Jr., Beverly Farms
Cabot, Mrs. Samuel, Jr., Beverly Farms
Campbell, Mrs. Douglass, New York
Campbell, Mrs. Frederick W.,

Peterborough, N. H.
Carroll, Dr. John J., Canton
Carroll, Rev. Thomas J., Newton
Case, Dr. Harold C, Boston
Case, Hon. Norman S., Wakefield, R. I.
Case, Mrs. Norman S., Wakefield, R. I.
Cassels, Miss Andree, Beverly Farms
Chapman, Rev. Frederick, Watertown
Chappel, Nelson, New York
Chase, John P., Boston
Cheever, David, Dedham
Cheever, Mrs. David, Dedham
Choate, Mrs. Joseph H., 3rd, Groton
Clarke, Rev. E. Palmer. Watertown
Cochran, Mrs. Olin J., Windham, N. H.

Connor, Dr. Gordon B., Boston
Coolidge, William A., Topsfield
Coon, Nelson, Vineyard Haven
Coon, Mrs. Nelson, Vineyard Haven
Costello, John W., Boston
Cotting, Charles E., Boston
Cunningham, Edward, Dover
Curtis, Louis, Boston
Cushing, Mrs. Henry K., Brookline
Cushman, Gardner, Belmont

Danielson, Mrs. Richard E., Boston
Dexter, Miss Harriet, Beverly
Donovan, Rev. Charles F.,

Elliott, Dr. Mark D., Concord
Emmons, Mrs. Robert W., Boston
Endicott, William, 2nd, Manchester

Farrell, Gabriel, Cambridge
Farrell, Mrs. Gabriel, Cambridge
Farrell, Dr. Malcolm J., Waverley
Faxon, Dr. Henry H., Brookline
Faxon, Mrs. Robert M., Milton
Fenn, T. Legare, Buzzards Bay
Fernald, Mrs. Mason, Westborough
Ferree, Dr. John W., New York
Fitz, Mrs. Reginald, Providence, R. I.
Forbes, David C, Sherborn
Forbes, Mrs. David C, Sherborn

Gardiner, John H., Danvers

Gardner, G. Peabody, Brookline

Gayzagian, Albert, Watertown

Gaylord, Emerson G., South Hadley Center

Gilbert, Carl J., Dover

Gleason, Miss Ellen H., Jamaica Plain

Goodhue, Mrs. Nathaniel, Medfield

Grandin, Mrs. Isabella, Boston

Gray, Francis C, Boston

Gundersen, Dr. Trygve, Brookline

Gundersen, Mrs. Trygve, Brookline

Hallowell, Richard P., 2nd, Boston
Hallowell, Robert H., Jr., Dover

Perkins School for the Blind

Hallowell, Mrs. Robert H., Jr., Dover
Harris, Rev. John U., Still River
Harris, Nathan P., Boston
Hemphill, J. Stephenson, Marstons Mills
Hemphill, Mrs. J. Stephenson,

Marstons Mills
Higginson, Francis L., Boston
Hinds, Mrs. E. Sturgis, Manchester
Hirshberg, Al, Brookline
Hoffman, Rev. Robert W., Urbandale, la.
Houlihan, Rt. Rev. Msgr. M. J., Gloucester
Hubbard, Mrs. Charles W., 3rd, Brookline

Ierardi, Francis B., Somerville
Innes, Mrs. Charles J., Boston

Jackson, Charles, Jr., Boston
Jackson, Mrs. James, Westwood
Jackson, Norman P., Revere
Jackson, Mrs. Norman P., Revere
Jeffries, J. Amory, Boston
Johns, Frank, Jr., Hartford, Conn.
Johns, Mrs. Frank, Jr., Hartford, Conn.
Johnson, Edward C., Milton
Jones, John Williams, St. Charles, 111.
Jones, William R., Holmdel, N. J.
Jostrom, Rev. W. Chester, Pembroke

Kelly, Francis A., Watertown

Kenyon, Miss Eunice L., Wellesley

Keppel, Francis, New York

Kidder, Mrs. Alfred, 2nd, Philadelphia, Pa.

Kidder, George H., Lincoln

Kiernan, Owen B., Washington, D. C.

King, Mrs. James G., New York

Klein, Ernest B., Boston

Knight, Andrew H., Birmingham, Ala.

Kolligian, Jack H., Winchester

Krock, Aaron, Worcester

Kuehn, Mrs. George W., Chestnut Hill

Lamb, Miss Aimee, Milton
Lamb, Miss Rosamond, Milton
Lawrence, Rt. Rev. Frederic C, Brookline
Lawrence, James, Jr., Brookline
Lawrence, John E., So. Hamilton
Lawrence, John S., Manchester
Leonard, Louis, Boston
Leviseur, Frederick J., Boston
Leviseur, Mrs. Frederick J., Boston
Lowell, John, Nahant
Lowell, Mrs. John, Nahant
Lowell, Ralph, Westwood
Lowell, Mrs. Ralph, Westwood
Lyman, Mrs. Arthur T., Westwood
Lyman, Miss Lydia A., Boston

MacPhie, Mrs. Elmore I., West Newton

Maliotis, Charles, Boston

Mason, Charles E., Jr., Newton Centre

McCarty, Rev. Chandler H., Keene, N. H.

McCord, David, Boston

McGrath, Michael F., Salem

McGreal, Mrs. Wm., Peterborough, N. H.

Merriman, Mrs. E. B., Providence, R. I.
Merriman, Mrs. Roger B., Cambridge
Middleton, W. Irving, Belmont
Miles, Mrs. Sherman, Beverly
Minot, James J., Boston
Mitton, Mrs. Arthur G., Jr., Chestnut Hill
Mitton, Mrs. Edward J., Wayland
Monks, Rev. G. Gardner, Cohasset
Montagu, Mrs. H. B., England
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Boston
Morss, Sherman, Beverly Farms
Morss, Mrs. Sherman, Beverly Farms
Motley, Edward, Concord
Motley, Warren, Boston
Mungovan, John F., Milton
Mungovan, Mrs. John F., Milton
Mussells, Dr. F. Lloyd, Canada
Mussells, Mrs. F. Lloyd, Canada
Mutch, Miss Margaret, Boston
Myers, Mrs. John W., Brookline

Neal, Paul L., Waltham
Norman, Mrs. John A., New York

Parker, William A., Boston

Parkman, Mrs. Henry, Boston

Peabody, Miss Margery, Groton

Perkins, Rev. Palfrey, Boston

Perley, Mrs. Jesse (Pratt), So. Freeport, Me.

Pew, George L., Falmouth Foreside, Me.

Plimpton, Mrs. George F., Boston

Potter, Miss Claudia, Waltham

Powers, Hon. William E., Providence, R. I.

Pratt, George D., Springfield

Preston, Mrs. Elwyn G., Jr., New York

Putnam, Mrs. Eliot T., Dedham

Putnam, Mrs. George T., Milton

Rackemann, Miss Elizabeth, Boston
Raiche, George A., Boston
Rice, Henry F., Bedford
Richards, Hamilton, Westwood
Richards, John, Gardiner, Me.
Richards, Tudor, Dublin, N. H.
Richardson, John, Milton
Richardson, Mrs. John, Milton
Robinson, Dwight P., Jr., Brookline
Ruelberg, Mrs. Reinhold, Chatham

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Theopold, Philip H., Boston
Thomas, Mrs. John B., Boston
Thompson, Cameron S., Boston
Thorndike, Dr. Augustus, Chestnut Hill
Thorndike, Benjamin A. G., Dedham
Todd, Francis B., New York

Tufts, John S., Watertown

Tynan, Maurice I., Delray Beach, Fla.

Waterhouse, Rev. Edson G., Townsend
Waterhouse, Edward J., Watertown
Waterhouse, Mrs. Edward J., Watertown
Weinberg, Mrs. Carol, Chestnut Hill
Wendell, Wm. G., West Hartford, Conn.
Werntz, George, Morristown, N. J.
Whitmore, Howard, Jr., Newton
Wiggins, Mrs. C, Gardiner, Me.
Wiggins, John, Westport, Conn.
Wiggins, Mrs. John, Westport, Conn.
Wild, Rev. John H., Watertown
Willett, Mrs. Seymour B., Chestnut Hill
Williams, Ralph B., Jr., Chestnut Hill
Williams, Mrs. Ralph B., Jr., Chestnut Hill

Yeo, Dr. Wendell, Newton

Zeilinski, John, Holyoke

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ADMINISTRATION AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

1968-1969

Edward J. Waterhouse, M.A., Cantab., D.Litt., Director
Benjamin F. Smith, A.B., M.A., Assistant Director

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE

Jeannette E. Stillisano Elizabeth Merrigan

Secretary to the Director Secretary to the Assistant

Mrs. Theresa Flaherty Director

Stenographer Mrs- s- r- Hemphill

t, _ Secretary, Deaf-Blind Fund

Mrs. Joan B. Smith Elizabeth O'Brien

Registrar Public Relations Secretary

Mrs. Mae Ellis Mrs. Madeliene B. Webber

Registrar Receptionist

Robert M. Campbell, A.B.,
M.C.S., Public Education

HEALTH

Victor G. Balboni, M.D. Mark D. Elliott, D.D.S.

Attending Physician Orthodontist

Mildred P. O'Keefe, R.N. Nicholas Albanese, D.D.S.

Resident Nurse Dentist

Mrs. Rosamond Macdonald, R.N. Trygve Gundersen, M.D.

Assistant Resident Nurse Ophthalmologist

H. M. Wolman, A.B., M.D. Mrs. Bernice H. Lowen, B.S.

Psychiatrist Physical Therapist

LIBRARY

Mrs. Billie Jean Ouellette, B.S., B.A., M.L.S., Librarian

Harriet M. Phillips, B.S. Mrs. Elizabeth Barger

Mrs. Shirley E. Welch, B.A., Braille Librarian

M.L.S. Mrs. Jean DiLorenzo

School Librarians Mrs. Maureen J. Flanagan

Kenneth A. Stuckey Mrs. Kathleen McLaughlin

Research Librarian Mrs. Emily Michelson

Paul Gifford, Shipping Clerk Mrs. Elizabeth Perry

Joseph Collins, Page Clerks

PSYCHOLOGY AND GUIDANCE

Carl J. Davis, A.B., Ed.M., Head

Thaddeus R. Mogilnicki, B.S., Mrs. Eleanor Schneider, A.B.,

M.Ed. Ed.M.

John L. Morse, A.B., M.Ed. Counselors

Supervisor of Counselors Mrs. Carmen Buckley, B.A.

Esmilta H. Oro, B.A., M.A. Psychometrist

Mrs. Helen Seale
Secretary

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SOCIAL SERVICE

Mary Whitelaw, B.S., M.S., A.C.S.W., Head

Audrey O'Brien, B.A.
Home Visitor

Mrs. Martha Weinstein
Secretary

TEACHER TRAINING

William T. Heisler, B.S., M.S., Head, Department of Teacher-Training
Mrs. Carolyn Hodgen, Secretary

BUSINESS AND OPERATING SERVICES

Donald F. Baumgartner, B.A., M.B.A., Bursar
Verna L. Anderson, Assistant to the Bursar

BUSINESS OFFICE

Mrs. Helen B. Lee
Secretary to the Bursar

Mrs. Marjorie Sowell
Secretary

MAIL & DUPLICATING
SERVICE

Mrs. Lois I. Downing
Mrs. Florence M. Dunham

TELEPHONE SERVICE

Mrs. Helen P. Troy

Chief Telephone Operator

Mrs. Elizabeth H. Bolton

Mrs. Marie E. Farrar

Mrs. Mary Shepard

Asst. Telephone Operators

BOOKKEEPING OFFICE

Forace L. Booker

Accountant
Mrs. Marie E. Menez

Head Bookkeeper
Mrs. Edith L. Keenan
Mrs. Anne McKenna

Assistant Bookkeepers
Mrs. Ann Brennan
Mrs. Mary Duval

Bookkeeper-Clerks

PERSONNEL OFFICE

Margaret E. McCloskey

Personnel Officer
Kathleen Curran

Secretary

MAINTENANCE AND UTILITY SERVICES

Claude E. MacIntyre, Superintendent
Mrs. Olga K. Swanson, Secretary

FOOD AND HOUSEHOLD SUPPLY SERVICE

Mrs. Kathleen A. Speakman, Dietitian
Florence Capobianco, Secretary

LAUNDRY SERVICES

Leo Harrington, Laundry man-Manager

HOWE MEMORIAL PRESS

Harry J. Friedman, Manager
Bertha Kasetta, Braille Editor

Perkins School for the Blind

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

A. Claude Ellis, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., Principal

Cynthia F. Essex, B.A.
Lower School Supervisor

Mrs. Doris Shackleton
Secretary to the Principal

John Goss, B.A., M.Ed.

Recreation Director & Coordi-
nator of Volunteer Services
Gwenn Getty

Clerk-Typist

TEACHERS

Anthony J. Ackerman, B.A.

English
Lynn Albright, B.A., M.Ed.

Intermediate Visual
Margaret A. Ballou, B.M.

Six Year Group
Eleanor Beissel, B.S.

Home Economics
Mrs. Billie Louise Bentzen,
B.A.

Social Studies, Sewing
Charlotte Blackwell, A.B.

French
Mrs. Dolores Britten, B.S.,
M.A.

Spanish
Mollie Cambridge, A.B.

Mathematics, Latin
Mrs. Patricia Cataruzolo, B.S.,
M.Ed.

Slow-Learners
Priscilla A. Chapin, B.S.

Pre-Primary Visual
Catherine Cowen

Slow-Learners
Sandra Driben, B.S.Ed., M.Ed.

Elementary Visual
Mrs. Lorraine Evensen, B.S.Ed.

Third Grade
John Fencer, Jr., B.S., M.Ed.

Mobility Teacher
Susan K. Flanigan, B.S., M.Ed.

Mobility Teacher
Warren C. Germain, A.B.,
Ed.M., J.D.

Mathematics
Mrs. Evelyn Hood

First & Second Grades
Mrs. Paula Huffman, A.B.

Primary Visual
Dorothy Ingersoll, B.A.

Speech Correction

Joseph E. Jablonski, B.S.Ed.,
M.Ed.

Ungraded
Dorothy M. Jackman, B.A.

Ungraded
Judith Keeney, B.A.

Mathematics
Norm and LeBlanc, A.B., M.Ed.

Social Studies
Kevin J. Lessard, B.A., M.Ed.

Mobility Teacher
Judith Libbey, B.A., M.Ed.

Intermediate Visual
Lawrence J. Melander, A.B.,
M.Ed.

Advanced Visual
Margaret I. Miller

Commercial
Mrs. Beverly Moller, B.A.

English
Mrs. Marina E. Muldowney,
B.A., M.Ed.

English
Mrs. Mary S. Nelson, B.S.,
M.Ed.

Slow-Learners
Mrs. Naomi Nelson, B.S.

Science
Judith Palmer, A.B., M.Ed.

Slow-Learners
Mrs. Rhoda F. Pill

Third Year Group
Mrs. Katherine M. Reilly,
B.A., M.Ed.

Mobility Teacher
Walter Edwin Russell, B.A.,
M.Ed.

Eighth Grade
Mrs. Helmi Salo

Commercial
Marcy Scott, B.A., M.A.

Spanish

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Mrs. Sally Stuckey, B.S.

Mathematics
Mrs. Dorothy Tabery, B.A.

Kindergarten
Pamela J. Trojanoski, B.A.

Mathematics
Anne Van De Water, B.A.,
M.Ed.

Fifth Grade

Mrs. Renee Vigoroso, B.A.,
M.Ed.
Science

Mrs. Sina F. Waterhouse, A.B.
M.A.

Speech Correction

Mrs. Madeliene Webber
Braille

MUSIC

Paul L. Bauguss, B.M., M.M., Head
Maria-Pia Antonelli, B.M., Edward Jenkins, F.T.C.L.

M.M.

Mrs. Judith E. Be vans, B.A.,
M.Ed.

Clay Douglas, Mus.B.

Mrs. Stella D. Jenkins, L.T.C.L.
Leonid Milius, Artists' Diploma
Henry Santos, B.M.
Eleanor W. Thayer, A.B.

Adele Trytko, B.M., M.M.

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

William W. Howat, B.S.Ed., Head
Department of Industrial Arts

Charles Avadanian, B.S., M.Ed.
Mrs. Billib Louise Bentzen,

B.A.
Mrs. Kerry Blum, B.A., M.Ed.
Walter P. Carr
Mrs. Joan Carroll

Sidney B. Durfee

Pianoforte Tuning

Mrs. Janet Howat, Secretary

Julian Green

Susan Montrone, B.S.

Nancy Nisula, B.A.

Mrs. Carol Paine, B.A.Ed.

Miguel C. Ruiz

Piano Tuning
Mrs. Cathryn Souza
Warner Stenquist

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

A. Claude Ellis, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., Head
Department of Physical Education

Michael John Cataruzolo Carol Ann Enis, B.S.

Ellen A. Dietrich, B.A. William Reagan, B.S., M.Ed.

Mrs. Carol Ann Wood, B.S.

Perkins School for the Blind

DEAF-BLIND

Mrs. Rose M. Vivian, B.S.Ed., Principal
Department of Deaf -Blind Children

Elizabeth Banta, B.S., M.S.,
C.A.G.S.

Co-ordinator of Pre-Schoo!
Services

Mrs. Gertrude Stenquist, B.A.

B.S., Ed.M., Research
Nancy V. Robbins, A.B., Ed.M.

Research

Lars Guldager Janice Vernacchio

Supervising Teacher Secretary

Mrs. Nancy Yachimski
Transcriber

TEACHERS

Mrs. Cristina Castro, B.S.E.,

M.S.
Mary Davis, B.A., M.Ed.
Andrea Storm Hiorth, B.M.,

M.Ed.
Lewis Huffman, Jr., B.S., M.Ed.
Carol L. Johnson, A.B., Ed.M.
Justin M. Kelly, B.S., M.Ed.
Helen Lazzari, B.A.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lech, B.S.,

M.Ed.
Mrs. Cynthia Maher, B.S.Ed.

Francis Maher, B.S.Ed.
Christine Marvel, B.A.
Marilyn O'Leary, B.S., M.Ed.
Michael D. Orlansky, B.A.,

M.Ed.
Leo F. Queenan, B.S.Ed.
Marcia R. Rubine, B.A.
Mdm. P. Tay Sock Hiang

Singapore Teachers' Training
College
Mrs. Bryndis Viglundsdotttr
Sheldon Maron, B.S., M.Ed.

ASSISTANT TEACHERS

Carol Ann Benoit
Mrs. Mary C. Cook, B.A.
Jo Anne Cort
Sheila Cullen, A.B.
Dianne E. Curry, B.A.
Trudy F. Foote, B.A.
Susan E. Hill

Marion Horgan
Susan Hurwitz, B.A.
Kathertne Ann Hyman, B.A.
Judith M. O'Neil, B.A.
Joyce Ann Smoot, B.A.
Appleby Upton
Pamela Winsten
Mrs. Susan Yurkus

TRAINEES, TEACHERS OF THE BLIND

Lyn Anne Baldwin, B.S.

State College at Bridgewater
Anthony B. Best

St. John's College, York
Teacher's Certificate
(England)
Nancy A. Blackburn, B.A.

Bates College
Richard W. Branting, A.B., M.A.

Clark University
Anthony P. Caetano, A.B.

Providence College

Patricia J. Carney, A.B.

Manhattanville College
Barbara Connolly, A.B.

Salve Regina College
Maria A. D'Amico, B.A.

Wheaton College
Gopinath Dan, B.A., M.A.

Calcutta University (India)
Michaeline Della Fera, B.A.

Diocesan Sisters College
Carol R. Ellis, B.A.

Gordon College

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Patricia M. Finan, A.B.

Immaculate College
Daljit Mohan Gulati, B.A.,
M.A.

Punjab University (India)
Dorothy Hartigan, B.A.

University of Illinois
Brenda E. Howard, B.E.

Plymouth State College
(N.H.)
Janet En-Ki Koa, B.A.

Tonghai University (Taiwan)
Paul X. McComiskey, B.S.

Boston College

Ajai Kumar Mittal, B.A.

Krishori Raman College
(India)
B. Venkat Reddy, M.A.

Osmania University (India)
Janice O. Sprague, B.A.

Gordon College
Ray Taylor, B.A.

University of Wichita
Jean Thomas, B.S.

University of Maine
Ellen M. Woodbury, B.S.

Bates College

TRAINEES, TEACHERS OF DEAF-BLIND

Barbara Bownes, B.A.

Bates College
Sherrill Butterfield, B.S.

State College at Fitchburg
Olive M. Drummond

Teacher Training Examina-
tions, Kingston (Jamaica)
Ann M. Freeman, B.A.

University of London
(England)
Nancy L. Gillie, B.S.

Indiana University
Knud E. Jensen

Teachers Training College
Aalborg (Denmark)
Mrs. Carolyn Johnson Kim-
berly, B.A.

University of Denver
Mary E. Klein, B.A.

Wheaton College

Diane MacGillivray, B.A.

Bates College
Inez McLaughlin

Primary School Teacher
Training, Kingston
(Jamaica)
Phyllis E. Nobles, B.S.

Loyola University
Judith L. Seeley, B.A.

Wellesley College
Mrs. Elizabeth Sigafoos, B.S.

Maryland College for Women
Robert E. Stewart, Jr., B.A.

University of Wyoming
Jacquelyn A. Treffry

Hamilton Teacher's College
Brantford (Canada)
J. J. A. Van Bosch, B.A.

University of South Africa
(South Africa)

Perkins School for the Blind

HOUSEHOLD

Benjamin F. Smith, A.B., M.A., Dean

ANAGNOS COTTAGE

Karen S. Litchfield

Housemother
Mrs. Hannah M. Wallace

Assistant Housemother
Ariel Dance

Junior Housemother
Sandra Cochrane
Nancy M. Garand
Judith Marcotte
Donna Marie Orlando

Attendants

BRADLEE COTTAGE

Mary McDonagh

Housemother
Mrs. Helen O'Hara

Assistant Housemother
Margaret A. Kelleher
Suzanne M. Michaud

Junior Housemothers

BRiDGMAN COTTAGE

Mrs. Louise Thatcher

Housemother
Mrs. Nellie M. DeAngelis

Relief Housemother
Mr. Anthony Ackerman, B.A.

Housemaster
Anthony B. Best

Assistant Housemaster

BROOKS COTTAGE

Mrs. Charlotte A. Tyler

Housemother
Mrs. Geneva F. Goulden

Assistant Housemother
Mrs. Nellie M. DeAngelis

Relief Housemother
Joan Gould

Attendant

ELIOT COTTAGE

Marie Carter

Housemother
Barbara Birge
Dorothy Dowe
Laura C. Hofeller
Barbara Morud
Ann C. Pollock
Barbara A. Wood

Attendants

FISHER COTTAGE
Mrs. Benigna E. G. Cull

Housemother
Catherine Sinclair

Relief Housemother
Mrs. Hazel Provan

Seamstress

GLOVER COTTAGE
Jeannette V. David

Housemother
Mrs. Anna F. Armstrong

Assistant Housemother
Susan J. Knight

Junior Housemother
Karen Meditz
Lillian Peterson
Joan E. Small

Attendants

MAY COTTAGE

Mrs. Rebecca H. Sreenan, B.S.P.E.

Housemother
Catherine Sinclair
Relief Housemother

MOULTON COTTAGE
Mrs. Emily J. Weidner

Housemother
Marion Batty e

Relief Housemother
Michael J. Cataruzolo

Housemaster
Richard W. Branting, A.B., M.A.

Assistant Housemaster

POTTER COTTAGE

Mrs. Irene S. Allisot

Housemother
Elaine M. Tulis

Assistant Housemother
Kathleen A. Mulready

Junior Housemother
Sheldon Maron, B.S., M.Ed.

Housemaster

TOMPKINS COTTAGE

Mrs. Helen Knight, B.A.

Housemother
Marion Batty e

Relief Housemother
Kenneth A. Stuckey

Housemaster
Knud E. Jensen

Assistant Housemaster

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CLASS OF 1968

Graduation Exercises 1968

Commencement Day was on Friday, June 7th, 1968 with the Com-
mencement Address by Mr. Egbert N. Peeler, former Superintendent of
The Governor Morehead School, Raleigh, North Carolina. The Invoca-
tion was given by the Rev. Harold S. Hannum, Pastor of the Phillips
Congregational Church in Watertown, which has been, for a number of
years, providing Sunday School Services to our Protestant children in
residence at weekends. The Chorus sang "Allelujah" by Handel and
"Sure On This Shining Night" by Samuel Barber. The Diplomas were
presented by Dr. Augustus Thorndike, President of the Corporation.

The Class numbered twenty which is unusually large. In addition,
fourteen Certificates were awarded from the Industrial Arts Department
and three Certificates from the Piano Tuning Department.

Of the class, no fewer than 12 were enrolled in college when the
school year ended on August 31, 1968. In addition, two other students
who graduated in 1967 and who took a postgraduate year at Perkins
were enrolled in the colleges of their choice.

It is perhaps of interest to note that of the 208 students who gradu-
ated from Perkins from 1950 through 1968, 104 — or exactly 50% —
entered college, while an additional 11 entered a Junior College or the
equivalent. Altogether, 55% proceeded to advanced education.

RALPH F. ANTONETTI

Although he has been with us for only two years, Ralph has estab-
lished himself as a full-fledged member of our class and he has entered
wholeheartedly into the many activities the school has to offer.

He has taken his share of honors in the sports program and dis-
tinguished himself as a member of Moulton's football team.

He considers his hobbies sports and the collecting of old records.
He has been one of our leaders in the social life of the school.

Ralph will return in the fall for a postgraduate year after which he
plans to enter college.

GAIL MARILYN BENNETT

Gail joined us in 1960 as a sixth grader. She got into the swim
immediately by becoming a Girl Scout.

She is a member of the chorus and Glee Club and she has partici-

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pated in the music festivals and in other Glee Club engagements.

Gail loves to dance and she especially enjoyed the advance course
offered this year.

Her favorite school subject is French, and this year she was the
only student in French 4.

Gail has made no immediate plans for the future, but she is think-
ing of taking a secretarial course. In whatever she does, we all wish her
well.

THOMAS ROBERT BERRY III

Thomas "Tim" Berry joined the Perkins family in the fall of 1960
as a seventh grader in the Upper School.

From his earliest days among us, Tim took a great deal of interest
in school sports. He has been a faithful member of the wrestling team
from the very start. In his sophomore year he served as Eliot Cottage
captain and was instrumental in bringing home to his teammates the
coveted football trophy. For his prowess as a bowler, he was awarded a
pair of bowling shoes by the P.A.A. He received high commendation
this year for the determination he showed especially in the wrestling
program.

Tim has made many friends among both staff and students. He has
several promising avenues of employment which he hopes to pursue. He
would seem to have a bright future, and we all wish him well.

CHARLOTTE L. BICKNELL

Charlotte, better known as "Sherry," came to Perkins in 1956. Her
earliest activities include two years as a Brownie and four as a Girl Scout.

She landed in Glee Club as an eighth grader. She joined the Drama
Club and took part in the radio play based on the life of Anne Sullivan.
Her first love, however, is ham radio. She obtained her novice license in
short order and a year later earned her general license. Undoubtedly
she is chiefly responsible for fostering interest among other girls in
forming an amateur radio club.

In the fall Sherry will enter Quinnipiac Junior College.

RICHARD E. BRIGGS

Since his entrance in 1955, Richard has been one of our most out-
standing and respected students. In his junior year he was elected Vice-
President of his class.

His interests are varied: drama, track, chorus — a wide spectrum of

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activities. Most recently he has become a devotee of new frontiers of
music, especially "liquid pop." He is very knowledgeable on the subject.
Academically he is especially strong in math and languages. Next
year he will be found on the campus of the University of Vermont. He is
not certain of his major, but he is thinking of the field of computer pro-
gramming.

SHEILAH MARY CARROLL

Sheilah came to Perkins in March of 1964 after attending public
and parochial schools in Springfield.

While a freshman she was on the girls' Softball team and the troop
leader of the Cadet Girl Scouts. As a junior she represented her cottage
on Student Council. At this time she was a substitute cheerleader.

Her deep interest in school and class activities is made even more
clear by her work this year. She is Vice-President of the class, has a
major share in running the girls' candy store, is Vice-President of the
Girls' Athletic Association, and the captain of Perkins' first Pep Club.
She attended the Playday at Batavia. She is in the Gymnastic Club and
on the cottage bowling team.

Sheilah loves to cook and received an award for her culinary talents
in her sophomore year. She loves to sew and has made her own gradu-
ation dress.

Her feelings of warmth and affection for her friends are recipro-
cated.

CAROLYN LEE CASSIL

Carolyn joined our class this year. She has added to our group a
warm and friendly personality.

Her chief interests are music and languages. Last year she was the
winner in a language competition. But her first love is music.

She has played the piano in talent shows, including the class-spon-
sored affair last fall. She was a member of the chorus and this spring she
played a major role in the Music Festival held here. At that time she
played a movement from Mozart's Piano Concerto in B-Flat.

Her future plans include a P.G. year here and then hopefully en-
trance into the New England Conservatory of Music.

WALDEN SOY CHIN

Walden, coming from the state of Rhode Island, joined us as a
sophomore. He has adjusted well to our school life.

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He has played an active part in both the cottage sports program
and in the competitive program outside the school. He was a member of
the track team for two years. He has played both baseball and football
for his cottage, Tompkins. He has a keen interest in basketball and can
really "pop" the ball in the hoop.

On a less strenuous level, Walden is a stamp collector.

Upon graduation Walden hopes to go into training in some area of
computer programming.

CAROL ANN CROWLEY

This friendly senior hails to us from Westwood. Among her accom-
plishments she lists membership in the Glee Club, Drama Club this past
year, and a two-year stint as class treasurer.

She will long remember her playing of the handbells for musical
events and her performance this year in "Spoon River." She will also
treasure the memory of her Play day trip to Batavia.

In spite of this busy schedule which further included the usual
sports and scouting activities, Carol has kept up her academic studies.
Ranking high on Carol's favorites list are cooking and sewing.

This summer Carol will journey to Morristown for her Seeing Eye
dog guide. After that she would like to prepare herself for working with
young children.

ALAN C. DALTON

Alan, entering Perkins as a seventh grader in 1962, involved him-
self almost at once in the life of the school. His two chief interests have
been in the Radio Club and on the wrestling team.

He served as class treasurer for three years and treasurer for the
Drama Club this past year.

Alan's social life has been most active, his weekends as busy as
the rest of the week.

Next year Alan will take a P.G. year in Burlington High School.
After that he hopes to attend the University of Vermont where he is
thinking of majoring in French.

His friends will remember him for his ready wit, his winning ways,
and a well-rounded personality.

DONALD DONOVAN DEIGNAN

Don came to Perkins in the fall of 1956. His Lower School career
was quiet and uneventful.

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As a seventh grader he was a member of Eliot's bowling team and
did them yeoman service for six years. He is an excellent swimmer. His
favorite form of relaxation, though, is reading.

The boys have shown their high regard for Don by electing him to
be President of the Boys' Student Council. He has also served as Presi-
dent of the freshman class. Since his eighth grade year he has been in
chorus, and last year in the Drama Club he took an important role in
"You Can't Take It with You."

Scholastically Don has done well. Undoubtedly history is his strong
area. Last year he won both a history prize and the Drucker prize for
the Junior Essay.

As he makes ready to enter Rhode Island College in the fall, his
classmates wish him the best of everything.

CLAIRE ELLEN DISANZA

Claire came to us in 1962 from the New Jersey public schools.

She has a variety of interests: sports, music, and science are chief
among these. She was a member of the Glee Club, Drama Club, Girl
Scouts. In her sophomore year she was a most capable cottage treasurer.
Claire was an excellent Latin student as testified to by her winning an
APSL award.

Next year Claire hopes to take a P.G. year in a public school in
Maryland. She is especially hopeful of continuing her piano studies,
choral singing and language studies.

ROBERT J. FARRELL

Bob came to Perkins in January, 1961. Almost from the time of
his arrival he began displaying his interest in music.

Bob's life here has been relatively uneventful, but he has by no
means been inactive. He has led an extremely social life at home.

His piano playing is his entree. He has performed in nightclubs and
restaurants and last June he made an appearance on Channel 2.

Another of Bob's interests is poetry. It is through this medium that
he tries to convey his political, social, and philosophical views.

Next year Bob plans to study at the Berklee School of Music in
the day. His evenings he hopes to spend taking courses at Harvard.

WILLIAM S. FISCHER

Bill enrolled here in 1955. His primary interests in the Lower
School were in the extracurricular program. He was very active in

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scouting. He early showed what a tough competitor he would be by
winning several awards in track.

From his junior high days to the present he has been an invaluable
member of Bridgman's football and baseball teams. He has been a major
factor in bringing wrestling and track trophies to the cottage. Especially
noteworthy is his record as a 2-mile distance runner.

Bill has been a member of the Radio and Drama dubs. In the
latter he will be remembered for his fine work behind the scenes.

Determination carried Bill from a general to a college course pro-
gram, and he has served his class beyond required duty. He served as
President of his class in 1967 and this year was its capable store manager.

Many a student, unable to get home on weekends, will remember
the hospitality extended to them in Bill's home. As he heads for Clark
in the fall, he will have the best wishes of an army of friends.

JO-ANN MARY KING

Entering Perkins in 1955, Jo- Ann has always been a vital part of
the entire school program.

She has many credits in the sports program. Beginning as a substi-
tute cheerleader in her freshman year, she made the regular squad for
the next three years. She has played Softball and shuffleboard for her
cottage; she was also on the bowling team. She further enhanced these
skills as a member of the Gymnastic Club.

For two years Jo-Ann has been on the Girls' Athletic Association
Board. As a junior and senior she was honored with the position of
President of the Girls' Student Council. She was President of her class
in her sophomore and senior years.

She has been an outstanding student scholastically. She has already
earned a Dictaphone Certificate.

As a member of the Drama Club she took important roles in "You
Can't Take It With You" and "Ten Little Indians."

During her summers Jo-Ann keeps just as busy. She has worked at
a camp for retarded children and for Project Headstart.

In the fall Jo-Ann will enter Simmons College to major in the field
of social work.

CLAIRE MARIE L'ECUYER

Claire came to Perkins as a kindergartner in 1955. She was chosen
as the little girl for the movie, "The Perkins Story." Her Lower School

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days were happy and busy ones with Brownie and Girl Scout activities.

Claire seems to do well in competitions. In the eighth grade she won
a typing contest and a year later she took a science prize. She was a part
of the group that journeyed to Washington for the observance of the
Anne Sullivan centennial.

For two years Claire was a member of the Folk Club and she took
the complete course in ballroom dancing.

Now Claire is looking forward to a P.G. year at the high school her
sister attends. Eventually she hopes to become a medical secretary. Our
thoughts and best wishes go with her.

BRIAN SCOTT MARGIE

Brian came to the school in 1955. He made friends easily and en-
hanced his image by plunging into the sports program of Potter Cottage.

He has the distinction of being the only seventh grader to win a
role in the Drama Club production of "Our Town." He has been with
them ever since appearing in "You Can't Take It With You," "The In-
extinguishable," and "Ten Little Indians." This year he guided the ship
in their Mississippi Showboat variety show.

He has always starred as an athlete, lettering consistently in track
and wrestling. He has been the spark on the Bridgman football and base-
ball teams, and he has always been ready to initiate any athletic event.

Among the offices he has held: Student Council, three times, cot-
tage captain, and class secretary.

Brian will return next year for further work prior to college en-
trance. His classmates will remember him for his objective insights, un-
qualified enthusiasm and unabated zeal.

MICHAEL ANGELO MARTINO

Mike came to Perkins as a kindergartner in 1955. Almost from the
outset Mike has been a science buff. This abiding interest paid off in his
freshman and sophomore years when he won prizes for papers he sub-
mitted on relativity and radioisotopes.

He has been a member of the Drama Club and the Radio Club, re-
ceiving his novice operator's license in the latter. But perhaps Mike will
be most remembered for his great love of jazz and his phenomenal de-
velopment as a saxophone player.

Though his college plans are not yet settled, we feel sure that Mike's
drive and initiative will help him achieve his goals.

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PAUL ARTHUR NADEAU

Paul has received his entire education here at Perkins. In Lower
School his chief interest was in scouting, an interest he continued for a
short time in the Upper School.

It was back in the fourth grade that Paul began contributing musi-
cally, singing in the Christmas concerts from then on. Naturally he
joined the Glee Club and has taken part in most of the annual music
festivals.

Perhaps Paul may some day be a banker. He has had enough ex-
perience here having been treasurer for both P. A. A. and Tompkins Cot-
tage. He also seems to end up on food committees for the athletic ban-
quets.

Paul has been a member of the track team for four years, manager
for The Towermen, our wrestling team, and cottage representative on
Student Council.

His hobbies include recording, and anything to do with machinery.
It is in this latter area where he hopes to find his vocation. We are sure
he will succeed.

DONNA LOUISE VENO

Donna, a warm and friendly person, entered Perkins in February
of 1967. Previously she had attended North Reading High School where
she was a member of both the Drama and Glee Clubs. She has con-
tinued in both these activities here.

Donna is a ham radio enthusiast and was this year's club president.

After graduation Donna hopes to go on to secretarial school to
train in some form of clerical work. Though with us comparatively
briefly, her spirited and friendly personality has won her many friends.
She is wished the best of everything by all her friends.

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REGISTRATION AS OF

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Maine

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

OUTSIDE NEW ENGLAND

Arkansas

Colorado

District of Columbia

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Dakota

Pennsylvania

Tennessee

Utah

Virginia

Washington

Wisconsin

OVERSEAS

Brazil

Canada

Cyprus

Guatemala

Iran

Singapore

Vietnam

DISTRIBUTION

Kindergarten

Primary

Intermediate

Ungraded, Lower School

Upper School

Ungraded, Upper School

Deaf-Blind

TOTAL REGISTRATION

NOVEMBER

Girls

126

115

1968

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15
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Mae E. Ellis
Joan B. Smith

Registrars

Perkins School for the Blind

STUDENTS 1968-1969
Lower School Girls

Bergeron, Cheryl, Reading, Mass.
Berry, Brenda Mae, Ayer, Mass.
Bills, Raye Elaine, Brattleboro, Vt.
Bills, Rosemarie, Brattleboro, Vt.
Botelho, Susan, Fall River, Mass.
Boutin, Waneta May, Island Pond, Vt.

Cavanaugh, Karen, Lynn, Mass.
Cohen, Sariann, Randolph, Mass.
Corbett, Maureen, Worcester, Mass.

D'Amelio, Florence, Allston, Mass.
DeChellis, Mary Ellen, Dorchester, Mass.
Dumais, Diane Lee, Marlboro, Mass.

Facteau, Susan, Dunbarton, N. H.

Gilford, Patricia Marie, Brighton, Mass.
Gionet, Charlene, Shirley, Mass.

Kaiser, Laurraine, East Providence, R. I.

Minckler, Lorraine, Swanton, Vt.

Newcomb, Jo Anne, North Weymouth, Mass.
Nicholas, Bernadette Lucy, Fall River, Mass.
Nutting, Dawn, Peace Dale, R. I.

O'Brien, Patrice, Braintree, Mass.

Parker, Jean, Portsmouth, N. H.
Phipps, Carole Lynn, Watertown, Mass.
Pimentel, Clarinha, Hudson, Mass.
Ploof, Cindy Marie, Biddeford, Me.
Polk, Linda, Natick, Mass.

Reid, Robin, Springfield, Mass.
Romboldi, Susan Alice, Plymouth, Mass.

Segelman, Marcy Joyce, Mattapan, Mass.
Sheedy, Nancy, Ashland, Mass.
Stone, Kathleen, Methuen, Mass.
Sullivan, Mary Ann, Melrose, Mass.

Valiton, Janice, Shelburne Falls, Mass.

Wiggin, Kelly, Essex Junction, Vt.

Yorks, Sharon, Wilmington, Mass.

Lower School Boys

Arena, John, Belmont, Mass.
Arsenault, Donald, Gardner, Mass.

Botelho, Manuel, Fall River, Mass.

Carter, Joseph, Springfield, Mass.
Carver, Paul, Alstead, N. H.
Chisholm, Craig, Maynard, Mass.
Christie, John F., Ill, Weymouth, Mass.
Cook, Blaine, Cedar Grove, Me.
Crowell, Herbert J., Dennisport, Mass.

DaSilva, Robert, East Wareham, Mass.
Davis, Richard, North Adams, Mass.
Dean, Evan, Camden, Me.
Dow, Allen, Milford, Mass.
Dubois, Ronald, New Bedford, Mass.

Fannin, Andrew Jackson, Frankfort, Ky.
Ferranti, David, Cranston, R. I.
Fontaine, Guy, Woonsocket, R. I.
Frasier, Ralph, Chatham, Mass.

Garrick, Daniel W., Jr., Stoughton, Mass.
Grover, John, Medfield, Mass.
Guba, Robert, Roslindale, Mass.

Hachey, Robert, Reading, Mass.
Holmberg, Nelson, Raynham, Mass.
Hunt, David, Medford, Mass.
Hunter, Douglas L., Roxbury, Mass.

Irving, Raymond, Cranston, R. I.

Kenney, William, Norton, Mass.
Kline, John B., Bridgeton, R. I.
Kozacki, John, Holyoke, Mass.

Laliberte, James, Otter River, Mass.
Lantz, Michael M., Waltham, Mass.
Lathrop, Dean Ray, Kittery Point, Me.
Leary, Timothy, East Taunton, Mass.
Lounsbury, Dana, Danvers, Mass.

MacKenzie, George F., Jr., Sudbury, Mass.
McGovern, Mark, Winchester, Mass.
McKenna, Thomas F., Ill, Beverly, Mass.
Mahan, Kevin Michael, Auburn, Mass.
Marcinkus, Mark, Worcester, Mass.
Moreira, Celso, Cambridge, Mass.
Moreira, John, Cambridge, Mass.
Moreira, Walter, Cambridge, Mass.
Murphy, Daniel O., West Harwich, Mass.

Nutting, Richard, Peace Dale, R. I.

Olsen, John P., Ill, Vineyard Haven, Mass.
Olsen, Zebulon T., Vineyard Haven, Mass.

Phelps, Herbert, East Greenwich, R. I.
Pope, Devin, Ashaway, R. I.
Pouliot, John, Amesbury, Mass.

Raschi, Richard, Somerville, Mass.

Sallander, William N., Warwick, R. I.
Soule, Alan Lee, Marlboro, Mass.

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Lower School Boys (Continued)
Sturgeon, Michael S., Bedford, Mass. Tourville, Andrew, Lowell, Mass.

Tack, Allan, Manchester, N. H.
Theberge, Stephen, Attleboro, Mass.

Wertman, Tobias, Vancouver, B. C, Canada
Wood, David, Lanesviile, Mass.

Upper School Girls

Aizenman, Frida, Lawrence, Mass.
Archambault, Anne Marie, Pittsfield, Mass.
Arey, Penelope Marie, Billerica, Mass.
Assadbadi, Soroya, Isfahan, Iran
Atwood, Donna, Andover, Mass.

Benenati, Antoinette, Boston, Mass.
Bromley, Lois Marie, New Haven, Vt.
Burgess, Sandra Diane, Springfield, Mass.
Burke, Janice, Watertown, Mass.

Cantrell, Deborah, Woburn, Mass.
Caruso, Lucille, Watertown, Mass.
Casey, Diane, Salem, Mass.
Cassil, Carolyn, Lincoln, Mass.
Coyle, Kathleen, Dorchester, Mass.
Crafts, Deborah, Hopkinton, Mass.

Demings, Patricia, West Warwick, R. I.
Demling, Andrea, Dedham, Mass.
DeVries, Sandra Jean, Arlington, Mass.
Dick, Tina, Middletown, R. I.
Donovan, Dorothy Rita, North Billerica,

Mass.
Drumm, Joyce, Williamstown, Mass.
Duclos, Valerie Mae, Pittsfield, Mass.

Eames, Kathy, Wilmington, Mass.
Ellington, Lillian, Charlestown, Mass.

Fanelle, Donna M., Maiden, Mass.
Feeney, Colleen, Worcester, Mass.
Foye, Cynthia M., Dorchester, Mass.

Gallant, Pauline Eunice, Pinehurst, Mass.
Gates, Jeannette, Hamilton, Mass.
Geddis, Jan Ellen, Turners Falls, Mass.
Gerardi, Barbara Ann, West Roxbury, Mass.
Gerardi, Bernadette Marie, West Roxbury,

Mass.
Gernrich, Candice L., Holden, Mass.
Gibbons, Marylee, Centerville, Mass.
Glazebrook, Karen, Weymouth, Mass.
Graham, Jacqueline, Worcester, Mass.
Graham, Judith, Worcester, Mass.
Grande, Kathleen, Arlington, Mass.

Hafey, Mary T., East Longmeadow, Mass.
Hancock, Susan Ellen, Somerville, Mass.
Harbberts, Mary Jean, Framingham, Mass.
Hennessy, Marie Ann, Norwood, Mass.

Henry, Marie Dianne, North Clarendon, Vt.
Henry, Mary Theresa, Norwood, Mass.
Holland, Peggy Lynn, Burlington, Vt.

Jones, Susan, St. Charles, 111.

Kelly, Florence A., Amesbury, Mass.
Kraeger, Ann, Wayland, Mass.

Lan, Anna Nguyen Thi Kim, Saigon,

Vietnam
Lavoie, Irene, Greene, R. I.
LeBlanc, Maria, Fitchburg, Mass.
LeBlanc, Raimona, Leominster, Mass.
Leffers, Charlotte Hughes, Needham, Mass.
Levitz, Susan, Union, N. J.
Lewis, Charlene Mary, Cambridge, Mass.

Mahoney, Lucille Mary, Hyde Park, Mass.
Marquis, Linda, Frenchville, Me.
McGoff, Gloria Jean, Westford, Mass.
Mitchell, Patricia, Stoneham, Mass.
Moreira, Filomena, Cambridge, Mass.
Morin, Jane Alice, Millbury, Mass.
Mountain, Sandra Marie, Gloucester, Mass.

Nguyen, Chien Thi, Saigon, Vietnam
Nicholas, Elizabeth, Fall River, Mass.

Owens, Sherry, Springfield, Mass.

Perron, Judith Anne, Suncook, N. H.

Quang, Theresa Li Thi, Saigon, Vietnam

Rabtoy, Rose Marie, Windsor, Vt.
Radicioni, Renee Mary, Westerly, R. I.
Raschi, Linda Marie, Somerville, Mass.
Roberson, Joan Carol, East Providence, R. I.
Rogosa, Linda Hope, Lynn, Mass.

Schneider, Clare Ann, Mattapan, Mass.
Schoenemann, Sandra, Springfield, Mass.
Sprague, Ruth, Sanford, Me.
Strazzullo, Ann Marie, Waltham, Mass.

Torpey, Michele, Lowell, Mass.

Varney, Diane V., Worcester, Mass.

Wood, Joyce, Springfield, Mass.
Wood, Linda, Springfield, Mass.
Woolf , Laura Lee, Newton Highlands, Mass.

Perkins School for the Blind

Upper School Boys

Baker, John, Dorchester, Mass.
Baran, Stephen, Kittery, Me.
Beaudin, Donald, Worcester, Mass.
Beaulieu, Robert, Taunton, Mass.
Beckwith, Robert B., Waltham, Mass.
Bilodeau, Dennis J., Barre, Vt.
Blier, Mark A., Leominster, Mass.
Botelho, Manuel, Fall River, Mass.
Brady, Dennis, Middletown, R. I.
Briggs, Neil Wayne, Ludlow, Vt.

Chao, Matthew, Cambridge, Mass.
Cicchese, J. Roger, East Weymouth, Mass.
Coco, Donald, Dorchester, Mass.
Connolly, Jeffrey D., Framingham, Mass.
Conti, John, Quincy, Mass.
Cronin, David John, Bellingham, Mass.

DeFort, Gerald Robert, Rockport, Mass.

DelPape, Paul, Pawtucket, R. I.

Deming, Russell Charles, Somerville, Mass.

Dillon, David J., Paxton, Mass.

Donle, Robert, Waltham, Mass.

Doody, Gerard Stephen, Arlington, Mass.

Downs, Richard, Maiden, Mass.

Eskett, John R., Belchertown, Mass.

Friedlander, Jeffrey, Providence, R. I.

Gagnon, Wayne Paul, Cambridge, Mass.
Gilmour, Lawrence, Peabody, Mass.
Goldstein, David, Stamford, Conn.
Greenberg, Harvey S., Watertown, Mass.
Grimes, Glenn Edward, Pawtucket, R. I.

Hall, Ellis, Jr., Roxbury, Mass.

Johnson, Larry S., Bucksport, Me.

Jordan, James Luther, III, Baton Rouge, La.

Lawford, Douglas, Dorchester, Mass.
Lowney, Edward P., Maiden, Mass.

Maling, William, Kennebunk, Me.
Margie, Brian Scott, Whitman, Mass.
Marshall, Rubens R., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
McClain, Robert, Newark, N. J.
McNally, Paul J., Wakefield, Mass.
McNutt, Richard W., Holden, Mass.
Milliken, Frederick J., Ill, Dedham, Mass.
Mills, Paul, Somerville, Mass.
Miron, Francisco, Guatemala, Central

America
Montgomery, Larry S., Portsmouth, R. I.

Nicholas, Michael, Fall River, Mass.
Nicholson, William Alfred, South Weymouth,
Mass.

Oleson, James Nelson, Cambridge, Mass.
Ostellino, John A., Pittsfield Mass,

Palano, Christopher J., Framingham, Mass.
Palano, Joseph P., Framingham, Mass.
Pavao, John D., Dighton, Mass.
Polselli, Dennis, Fall River, Mass.

Remaly, Mark, Greenfield, Mass.
Rosa, Jeffrey A., West Springfield, Mass.
Rossier, Samuel E., Jr., Sutton, Vt.
Rowley, Robert, Saugus, Mass.

Sassi, Ralph, Braintree, Mass.
Sawyer, Richard E., Mansfield, Mass.
Sheehan, Michael J., Westwood, Mass.
Silver, Michael, Saxonville, Mass.
Snellman, Paul, Watertown, Mass.
Sten, Albert, North Abington, Mass.
Swan, Frederick, Leicester, Mass.

Tucker, Daniel E., Fairhaven, Mass.
Turner, James E., Quincy, Mass.

Ward, Irving M., Burlington, Vt.
Weigel, Thomas J., Kin tyre, N. D.
Wright, Randall, Dorchester, Mass.

Deaf-Blind Girls

Amato, Catherine M., Laurel, Miss.
Anderson, Patricia Jayne, Flushing, Mich.
Arnspiger, Laurie Ann, Fruta, Colo.

Babbs, Angelia Marilyn, Pittsfield, Mass.
Ballard, Vicki, Littleton, Colo.
Brummett, Deborah Kay, Eberfield, Ind.

Chan, Poh Lin, Singapore, Malaysia
Crowley, Teresa Jo, Aztec, N. M.
Curnutt, Terri L., New Castle, Ind.

Daniels, Sharon, Camdenton, Mo.

Gilbrough, Christine, Seattle, Wash.

Helgason, Sharon Louise, St. Paul, Minn.
Hickman, Joyce, Nashville, Tenn.

Leach, Sheila, Camden, Ark.

McClellan, Elizabeth, Salt Lake City, Utah
McCrohan, Dorothy, Glenolden, Pa.

Parkhurst, Linda, Norwich, Conn.
Pinckney, Mila, University City, Mo.
Porter, Carol Ann, Bedford, Mass.

Sabonaitis, Gayle Ann, Worcester, Mass.
Surriite, Barbara J., Cambridge, Mass.

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Deaf-Blind Boys

Adorjan, Timothy, Adams, Wis.
Clancy, Martin J., Bayside, L. I., N. Y.
Driscoll, Richard Joseph, Ventnor, N. J.
Evans, Mark, Baton Rouge, La.

Fawcett, James Leslie, Renfrew, Ontario,
Canada

Gilchrist, Timothy Robert, Renfrew,
Ontario, Canada

Hammond, Clarence, Jr., Washington, D.
Hannah, Timothy, Dickson, Tenn.

Jerram, Ronald, Elmira, N. Y.
Jimenez, Wilfredo, Perth Amboy, N. J.

Kastner, Richard, Nutley, N. J.
Merschman, Steven, West Point, Iowa
Obie, Isaac, Atlanta, Ga.

Rakes, Stephen, Woolwine, Va.
Rancourt, Raymond, Lewiston, Me.

Thompson, Rayvon, Riddelton, Tenn.

Yingling, Fred, Union Bridge, Md.

Pre-School

Boneski, Elizabeth, Dudley

Collins, Maura, Medfield
Cunniff, John, Everett

Estes, Dawn Marie, Lynn

Gerry, Brian, Dorchester
Gonzales, Rubin, Chelsea
Grande, Mark, West Roxbury

Hunt, Robert, Dedham

Deaf-Blind Day Students

Louzada, Sandra, Roxbury

McLean, Hinton, Dorchester

Pinellos, Juanita, Roxbury
Polcaro, Joseph, Medford

Reynolds, James, Winthrop

Slack, Steve, Walpole
Smalley, Colleen, Andover

Tompkins, Tracy, Maiden

Finance

TREASURER'S REPORT

The report of the Treasurer for the year ended August 31, 1968 is
submitted herewith. The accounts of the Corporation were audited by
Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, and their report is attached.

Income from tuition and board of $1,446,418 was approximately
$315,000 greater than the previous year as a result of the increase in
the tuition rate. Investment income assigned to the funds was at the rate
of 7.50% of book value. The actual income from securities was 6.91%
of book value compared with 7.04% in the previous year. The Unallo-
cated Investment Income account was increased by $38,917.

Operating expenses of $2,269,884 were approximately $227,000
higher than the previous year and, of this amount, $187,000 was attrib-
utable to higher salaries and payments for retirement benefits. Income for
the year exceeded expenses by $86,006 and was credited to the Reserve
Fund for Maintenance and Replacement which, after total charges of
$146,008, had a balance of $875,365 on August 31, 1968.

The Howe Memorial Press sales were slightly lower than the previ-
ous year but operating income showed a loss of only $923 compared
with a loss of $13,297 in the previous year. Total net income, including
that from its endowment, was $16,327 as against $3,307 last year.

Respectfully submitted,

Ralph B. Williams, Treasurer

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INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC
ACCOUNTANTS' REPORT

The Board of Trustees of

Perkins School For The Blind

We have examined the balance sheet of Perkins School For The Blind as at
August 31, 1968 and the following related statements for the year then ended:

Statement of Expenses and Resources Used to Meet Expenses

Operating Expenses

Howe Memorial Press Statement of Income and Expense

Summary of Changes in Current Restricted Funds

Summary of Changes in Invested Funds

Summary of Changes in Plant Funds

Summary of Changes in Howe Memorial Press Funds

Deaf-Blind Department Statement of Expenses and Resources

Used to Meet Expenses
Changes in Principal of Deaf -Blind Fund
Summary of Title I Funds

Our examination was made in accordance with generally accepted auditing stand-
ards, and accordingly included such tests of the accounting records and such
other auditing procedures as we consider necessary in the circumstances. We pre-
viously examined and reported on the above statements for the year ended August
31, 1967.

In our opinion, the aforementioned statements (with investments stated at
cost) present fairly the financial position of Perkins School For The Blind at
August 31, 1968 and the results of its operations for the year then ended, in con-
formity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent
basis.

Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery

Boston, Massachusetts
October 2, 1968

Perkins School for the Blind

COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEETS

August 31, 1968 and August 31, 1967

ASSETS

1968

1967

Current assets
Cash

Unrestricted $ 49,454 $ 37,555

Restricted 105,732 112,232

Accounts receivable 9,265 15,022

Due from Howe Memorial Press 6,294 6,264

Prepaid expense 7,792 14,189

178,537 185,262

Investments (note A)

General investments 18,159,638 16,501,606

Special investments 662,750 2,380,675

Advanced to current funds 19,059 29,250

Cash 4,910 11,231

18,846,357 18,922,762

Less participation of plant funds 875,365 803,299

17,970,992 18,119,463

Plant assets, at cost

Land and buildings 4,116,378 4,054,183

Furniture and equipment 373,064 342,947

Library books 112,898 115,389

Music equipment 36,892 36,892

Construction in progress 80,575

Participation in investments 875,365 803,299

Investments (note A) 2,297,488

Advanced to invested funds 115,440

Cash 54,702

8,062,802 5,352,710

Howe Memorial Press assets

Cash 27,150 48,693

Securities (note A) 322,766 302,097

Accounts receivable 93,962 108,327

Inventories, at lower of cost or market 167,483 142,257

Building improvements, machinery and equipment,

at cost, less accumulated depreciation $74,157

and $73,320 133,514 139,928

744,875 741,302

Total assets $26,957,206 $24,398,737

84 137th Annual Report

COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEETS

August 31, 1968 and August 31, 1967

1968 1967

53,747 $

43,780

10,043

11,627

29,630

33,994

66,058

66,611

19,059

29,250

LIABILITIES AND FUNDS

Current liabilities and funds

Aecounts payable :

Director's discretionary fund

Unexpended gifts for restricted purposes

Unexpended income for restricted purposes ....
Advanced from investment funds

Invested funds
Endowments

Income restricted

Income unrestricted

Funds functioning as endowments

Income restricted

Income unrestricted

Unallocated investment income
Undistributed net gain on sale of

General investments

Special investments

Advanced from plant funds

Plant funds and reserve

Reserve for maintenance and replacement

Plant capital

Unexpended plant funds

Howe Memorial Press liabilities and funds

Accounts payable 6,514 9,430

Due to current funds 6,294 6,264

Advances from customers 6,084 4,587

Accrued payroll 4,418 17,913

Funds

Income restricted 24,839 24,839

Income unrestricted 12,586 12,586

Principal and income unrestricted 684,140 665,683

744,875 741,302

Total liabilities and funds $26,957,206 $24,398,737

Notes:

A — Purchased securities are carried at cost; donated securities are carried at market value
at date of gifts. Market values of investments at August 31, 1968 were as follows:
general investments — $27,107,908; special investments — $1,048,330; investments of
plant funds — $2,815,868; and investments of the Howe Memorial Press — $471,359.
B — The unfunded past service liability under the school's revised employees' retirement
plan, being charged over twenty-five years from 1958, amounted to approximately
$44,400 at August 31, 1968 and $71,500 at August 31, 1967.

178,537

185,262

711,179
1,920,754

705,443
3,119,947

815,437
8,334,862
1,422,568

801,518

7,677,163
1,383,651

4,192,433
458,319
115,440

3,481,799
949,942

17,970,992

18,119,463

875,365
4,719,807
2,467,630

803,299
4,549,411

8,062,802

5,352,710

Perkins School for the Blind 85

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPENSES
AND RESOURCES USED TO MEET EXPENSES

Years Ended August 31, 1968 and 1967

1968 1967

Total operating expenses (see page 86) $2,329,778 $2,118,740

Income

Tuition and board

Government and private agencies 1,410,794 1,089,994

Scholarships 11,920 12,595

Parents 23,704 29,050

Library services 48,739 37,020

Net miscellaneous income 12,422 2,694

Total operating income 1,507,579 1,171,353

Excess of operating expenses 822,199 947,387

Appropriation (from) to reserve for maintenance and

replacement 86,006 (32,813 )

Net operating expenses and appropriation $ 908,205 $ 914,574

Resources

Income from outside trusts

Restricted 10,190 9,956

Unrestricted 33,468 31,431

Other 3,630

Unrestricted gifts 1,677 1,546

Income of invested funds used

Restricted endowments 5,635 5,082

Unrestricted endowments 166,202 239,399

Other unrestricted purposes 582,790 534,113

Deaf-Blind purposes 66,921 60,354

Principal of Deaf-Blind Fund 41,322 29,063

Resources used to meet net operating ex-
penses and appropriation $ 908,205 $ 914,574

137th Annual Report

OPERATING EXPENSES

Year Ended August 31, 1968

1968

Administration

Special departments

Library

Health

Social service

Psychology and guidance

Education

Literary

Industrial arts

Music

Deaf-Blind

Teacher training

Household

General

Food

Laundry

Maintenance

Engineering

Fuel

Buildings

Grounds

Other (transportation, insurance and
miscellaneous)

Retirement and hospitalization benefits
and taxes

Provision for maintenance and replace-
ment

Treasurer's office

New equipment

Allocation to Howe Memorial Press

Acquisition of plant assets out of in-
come
Allowance for uncollectible accounts . .

Salaries

Expenses

Total

$ 175,877

$ 81,570

$ 257,447

63,988
30,480
17,560
52,270

5,476
3,018
1,525
2,257

69,464
33,498
19,085
54,527

164,298

12,276

176,574

346,131
81,183
65,112

195,651
20,043

15,308
3,591
2,053
9,023
8,265

361,439
84,774
67,165

204,674
28,308

708,120

38,240

746,360

353,195
24,525

27,899

103,353

1,691

381,094

103,353

26,216

377,720

132,943

510,663

80,095

74,535
56,585

28,938

36,911

9,234

5,588

109,033
36,911
83,769
62,173

211,215

80,671

291,886

24,204

157,454

10,500

72,000
16,946

24,742

72,000
27,446
24,742

$1,647,730 $641,046 2,288,776

(18,892)

2,269,884

58,513
1,381

Total operating expenses (to page 85) $2,329,778

Perkins School for the Blind 87

HOWE MEMORIAL PRESS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSE

Years Ended August 31, 1968 and 1967

1968 1967

Sales

Appliances $ 77,631 $ 76,335

Brattle writers 472,381 469,207

Braille printing 32,797 36,701

Stereotype machine 4,000 8,045

586,809 590,288

Cost of sales

Appliances 79,258 74,425

Braille writers 320,832 338,549

Braille printing 35,710 40,011

Stereotype machine 11,639 15,808

Freight and shipping expense 3,277

450,716 468,793
Gross margin 136,093 121,495

Operating expenses

Administrative salaries 41,075 38,638

Administrative expense 19,286 15,686

Depreciation 13,050 12,435

Maintenance 4,870 7,084

Insurance 6,018 3,967

Retirement benefits and taxes 26,213 31,725

Provision for uncollectible accounts 1,707 3,687

Miscellaneous 2 405 777

Rent 3'500 3,500

Allocation of administrative expenses from Perkins

School 18,892 17,293

137,016 134,792

Operating income or (loss) (923 ) ( 13,297 )

Other income

Interest and dividends 16,618 16,021

Transfer from unexpended income for restricted pur-
poses 609 568

Donations and miscellaneous (net) 23 15

17,250 16,604

Net income $ 16,327 $ 3,307

137th Annual Report

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN CURRENT RESTRICTED FUNDS

Year Ended August 31, 1968

Director's Unexpended
Discretionary Income and

Fund

Gifts

Balance, beginning of year

Receipts

Gifts and legacies

Title I Project

Income from outside trusts

Publication fund

Other

Total

Transfers

Income from invested funds . . .

Capitalization of income

Other

Net transfers

Expenditures

Used to meet operating expenses

Scholarships

Title I Projects

Director's specified purposes . . .

Conferences and travel

Publication printing

Student medical care

Perkins Binet

Other

Total

Balance, end of year

$11,627

$100,605

6,817

11,469

23,611

52,663

2,500

7,582

14,399

90,243

43,055

(5,636)

2,595

(2,606)

2,595

34,813

45,336

2,228

9,692

34,993

16,350

20,243

1,396

7,909

3,830

6,574

18,578

129,973

$10,043

$ 95,688

Perkins School for the Blind 89

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN INVESTED FUNDS

Year Ended August 31, 1968

Funds

Functioning Undistributed

Endowment as Net Gain on

Funds Endowments Investments Total

Balance, beginning of year $3,825,390 $ 9,862,332 $4,431,741 $18,119,463
Receipts

Gifts and legacies . . . 29,849 760,772 790,621

Investment income

(note) 219,114 684,406 903,520

Gain on sale of in-
vestments 732,217 732,217

Total 248,963 1,445,178 732,217 2,426,358

Distribution of gains of
Tompkins Fund to its

principal 513,206 (513,206)

Transfers

Capitalization of in-
come 5,636 5,636

Restricted income to

current funds (34,923) (8,132) (43,055)

Tompkins Fund to

Plant Funds (1,742,148) ( 1,742,148)

Net transfers (1,771,435) (8,132) (1,779,567)

Expenditures

Income used for oper-
ations from
Restricted

endowments . . 5,635 5,635

Unrestricted

endowments . . 166,202 166,202

Unrestricted
funds

functioning

as endowments 582,790 582,790

Funds restricted
for deaf -blind

use 12,354 54,567 66,921

Principal used for

deaf-blind purposes 41,322 41,322

Anne Sullivan

Centennial 6,250 6,250

Acquisition of

plant assets 41,582 41,582

Total 184,191 726,511 910,702

Balance, end of year $2,631,933 $10,572,867 $4,650,752 $17,855,552

Note— Investment income of the general investments was distributed in 1968 at 7.50% of a
weighted average of each participating fund. The actual earnings were 6.91% of the
general investments stated on the same basis.

90 137th Annual Report

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN PLANT FUNDS

Year Ended August 31, 1968

Reserve for

Maintenance Unexpended

and Plant Plant

Replacement Capital Funds Total

Balance, beginning of year $803,299 $4,549,411 $5,352,710

Additions

Investment income . . 60,068 $ 115,440 175,508

Realized net gains on

investments 655,694 655,694

From operations

Provision for
maintenance
and replace-
ment 72,000 72,000

Appropriation .. 86,006 86,006

Plant acquisitions 83,255 83,255

Plant acquisitions from

Current funds . . 2,399 2,399

Invested funds . . 41,582 41,582

Total 218,074 127,236 771,134 1,116,444

Transfer

From Endowment
Funds (Tompkins
Fund) 1,742,148 1,742,148

Construction in prog-
ress financed by
Tompkins Fund . . . 45,652 (45,652)

Total 45,652 1,696,496 1,742,148

Reductions

Replacements and spe-
cial maintenance . . 146,008 146,008

Library books depreci-
ation 2,492 2,492

Total 146,008 2,492 148,500

Balance, end of year $875,365 $4,719,807 $2,467,630 $8,062,802

Perkins School for the Blind 91

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN HOWE MEMORIAL PRESS FUNDS

Year Ending August 31, 1968

Funds with Principal

Restricted Unrestricted Total

Balance, beginning of year $37,425 $665,683 $703,108

Additions

Investment income 853 15,765 16,618

Net income or (loss) from operations (923) (923)

Gain on sale of investments 2,130 2,130

Other 23 23

853 16,995 17,848

Transfers

From current funds 609 609

Other (853) 853

Balance, end of year $37,425 $684,140 $721,565

SUMMARY OF TITLE I FUNDS (E.S.E.A.— P.L. 89-313)

Years Ended August 31, 1968 and 1967

1968 1967

Balance, beginning of year $ 9,879 $15,620

Receipts (net of state refunds) Summer school and pre-
school deaf-blind programs 23,611 36,685

Expenditures

Salaries 24,796 31,667

Equipment 6,812

Other 3,385 10,759

Total 34,993 42,426

Balance, end of year ( $1,503 ) $ 9,879

Notes:

A — Title I funds were first granted in 1966. Receipts of $27,182 less expenditures of $11,-
562 during fiscal 1966 resulted in a balance at the beginning of fiscal 1967 of $15,620.

B — Final Title I receipts and expenditures as reported to the government for years ended
August 31, 1968, 1967 and 1966 were $35,778, $38,635 and $14,827 respectively. These
amounts differ from those shown above due to inter-period adjustments.

92 137th Annual Report

DEAF-BLIND DEPARTMENT

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPENSES AND

RESOURCES USED TO MEET EXPENSES

Years Ended August 31, 1968 and 1967

1968 1967

Expenses

Teaching salaries and expenses including pre-school . . $204,674 $192,633

Pre-school salaries and expenses funded by Title I . . . 18,553

Share of other school expenses (note) 185,661 163,016

Total operating expenses 408,888 355,649

Income

Tuition and board 181,099 172,299

Excess of operating expenses $227,789 $183,350

Resources

Deaf-Blind Fund investment income 53,460 47,896

Deaf -Blind purposes investment income 13,460 12,458

Share of income from invested funds (note) 82,936 85,459

Share of other income (note) 16,154 6,577

Income from outside trust 1,904 1,897

Title I funds 18,553

Principal of Deaf-Blind Fund 41,322 29,063

$227,789 $183,350

Note — A proportionate share of applicable school expense and income has been allocated to the
Deaf-Blind Department on the basis of student enrollment and use of facilities.

CHANGES IN PRINCIPAL OF DEAF-BLIND FUND

Years Ended August 31, 1968 and 1967

Balance at beginning of year $678,550 $647,916

Add

Contributions received 67,076 67,184

Less expenses of campaign (13,250) (11,487)

Net 53,826 55,697

Legacies received 6,000 4,000

Total 59,826 59,697

Less

Transfer to Theodore and Jeanne Gelb Scholarship

Fund for the Deaf-Blind 3,000

Net loss of Deaf-Blind Department for the year 41,322 29,063

Total reductions 44,322 29,063

Balance at end of year $694,054 $678,550

Perkins School for the Blind

SCHOOL FUNDS AUGUST 31, 1968

Endowments — Income restricted for:

Deaf-Blind

Joseph B. Glover Fund $ 7,661.07

Glover Funds, for Blind-Deaf Mutes 2,168.61

Henry Clay Jackson Fund 127,870.87

Augustine Schurtleff Fund 2,681.37

Thomas Stringer Fund 24,331.91

Kindergarten

Charles Tidd Baker Fund 104,198.41

Ira Hiland (income to W.E.R. for life) 2,056.80

Leonard & Jerusha Hyde Room 8,228.31

Emeline Morse Lane Fund (books) 2,056.80

Other

Charles Tidd Baker Fund 51,713.26

Jonathan Woodbury Clough (education teachers) . 141,737.74
Anna E. Douglas Fund (for the printing of braille

books) 22,500.00

Albertina Eastman Alumnae Scholarship Fund . 13,662.64

John D. Fisher (education teachers and others) . 8,163.12

John Goldthwait Fund (charitable) 6,772.18

Eliza O. Harrington (medical care for unfortunate

students) 1,140.79

Harris Fund (outdoor relief) 40,858.24

Parkman B. Haven Fund (medical treatment and

care) 75,000.00

Pauline Johnson Memorial Fund 1,000.00

Lizzie R. Kinsman (higher education for boys) 1,500.00

Maria Kemble Oliver Fund (concert tickets) . . . 22,983.25

Prescott Fund (education teachers and others) 32,530.71

Elizabeth P. Putnam (higher education) 1,532.22

Edith C. Reichardt Memorial Fund (tuition of

needy students) 1,500.00

Richard M. Saltonstall (use of Trustees) 4,596.63

A. Shuman Clothing Fund 1,532.22

Lenna D. Swinerton (needy girls) 701.36

Carl H. Wadell Memorial Fund (for a prize in

physical education) 500.00

$164,713.83

116,540.32

429,924.36
$711,178.51

Endowments — Income unrestricted:
Varnum Fund

209,341.99

137th Annual Report

Permanent — School:

William Baines $

15.96

George Baird Fund .

12,895.21

Charlotte Billings

40,507.00

Ralph W. Blackmer

2,000.00

Frank W. Boles

76,329.02

Stoddard, Capen

13,770.00

Jennie M. Colby, in

100.00

Ella Newman Curtis

Fund

2,000.00

Henry D. and Edith

M. Davidson Fund

25,020.00

Elizabeth P. Douglas

1,323.55

Alfred W. Elson . . .

40,259.60

Stephen Fairbanks . .

10,000.00

David H. Fanning . .

5,010.56

12,215.61

Helen Osborne Gary

10,000.00

Forrest C. Gates Trust

10,000.00

Arthur B. Gifford . .

4,832.92

Harris Fund

(general purposes)

53,333.00

Harriet S. Hazeltine

5,000.00

Georgia Houston . . .

17,858.44

Benjamin Humphrey

25,000.00

Gertrude B.

5,000.00

Prentiss M. Kent . . .

2,500.00

Alice G. and Samuel

G. King, in mem-

ory of

8,000.00

Adelaide C. Klous

Fund

7,560.87

Sir Charles W. Lind-

9,008.93

Charles H. Mason . .

5,770.80

Helen A. P. Merriman

10,054.26

Kate M. Morse Fund

5,000.00

Albert A. Morton

Memorial Fund . .

35,000.00

Horace A. Moses

Fund

250,000.00

Danobello Nazareno

8,000.00

Permanent — Kindergarten:

Mary D. Balfour

Fund

5,692.47

William Leonard Ben-

edict, Jr., Memo-

1,000.00

Samuel A. Borden . .

4,675.00

General — School (Continued)

Jonathan E. Pecker
Richard Perkins ....
Henry L. Pierce ....
Mrs. Marilla L. Pitts,

in memory of ...
Frederick W. Pres-

cott endowment . .
Helen Robinson, in

memory of

Frank Davison Rust

Memorial

Ella Adams Sawyer .
Ella Adams Sawyer &

Charles Mills Ad-
ams Fund

Samuel E. Sawyer . .
Margaret A. Simpson
Caroline A. Slack . .
Charles Frederick

Smith Fund

Timothy Smith . . . .:
Mary Lowell Stone

Fund

Joseph E. Stott

Mary Thatcher ....
George W. Thym

Fund

Alfred T. Turner . . .
Thomas Upham Fund
Levina B. Urbino . .
Mabel G. Warren . .

Vaughn Fund

Ann White Vose ....
Francis Knowles

Warren

Charles L. Young . .

Add:

Distributions of
Surplus:
August 31,

1947

August 31,
1963

A.A.C., in Memoriam
Helen G. Coburn . .
Charles Wells Cook
M. Jane Wellington

Danforth Fund . .
Caroline T. Downes
Charles Draper

Fund

950.00
20,000.00
20,000.00

5,000.00

25,338.95

7,550.00

4,000.00
38,500.00

4,859.40

2,174.77

968.57

10,000.00

8,663.00
2,000.00

4,000.00
7,300.00
1,000.00

5,054.66

1,000.00

4,950.00

500.00

17,080.91

10,553.50

12,994.00

10,000.00
5,000.00

$ 942,803.49

8,870.34

288,238.17

$1,239,912.00

500.00
9,980.10
5,000.00

10,000.00
12,950.00

23,934.13

Perkins School for the Blind

Eliza J. Bell Draper

Fund

1,500.00

Helen Atkins Ed-

mands Memorial .

5,000.00

George R. Emerson

5,000.00

Mary Eveleth

1,000.00

Eugenia F. Farn-

1,015.00

Susan W. Farwell . .

500.00

John Foster

5,000.00

The Luther and

Mary Gilbert

Fund

8,541.77

1,000.00

Martha R. Hunt . . .

10,000.00

Mrs. Jerome Jones

Fund

9,935.95

Charles Larned ....

5,000.00

Elisha T. Loring . . .

5,000.00

George F. Parkman .

3,500.00

Catherine P. Perkins

10,000.00

Edith Rotch

10,000.00

Frank Davison Rust

Memorial

15,600.00

Caroline O. Seabury

1,000.00

General — School (Continued)

Phoebe Hill Simpson

Fund

Eliza Sturgis Fund .
Abby K. Sweetser . .
Hannah R. Sweetser

Fund

Mrs. Harriet Taber

Fund

Levina B. Urbino . .
The May Rosevar

White Fund

Add:

Distributions of
Surplus:
August 31,
1947 ...
August 31,
1963 ...

3,446.11
21,729.52
25,000.00

5,000.00

622.81
500.00

500.00

$ 229,122.86

85,210.31

157,166.58

$ 471,499.75

$1,920,753.74

Funds functioning as endowments — Income restricted for:
Deaf-Blind

Robert C. Billings $ 6,128.86

Deaf-Blind Fund 694,055.66

Theodore & Jeanne Gelb Scholarship Fund 3,000.00

Grace M. & Seymour B. Willett Family Scholar-
ship Fund 7,128.57

Kindergarten

Dr. Ruey B. Stevens Charity Fund . .
Lucy H. Stratton (Anagnos Cottage)

Other

Charles S. Adams (Christmas Fund)

Mary Alice Butler (for reading matter for the

blind)

Samuel P. Hayes Memorial Prize Fund

Annie Sullivan Memorial Fund (research and

Fellowships for Deaf-Blind)

Chan Poh Lin Fund

Dr. Reginald H. Fitz Memorial Prize Fund ....
John Kulesza Memorial Fund (for Industrial

Arts)

Julia E. Turner (education of worthy needy) . . .

11,313.50
14,256.93

306.05

6,062.73
750.00

54,994.67
404.67
750.00

6,526.14
9,759.51

$710,313.09

$ 25,570.43

$ 79,553.77

$815,437.29

137th Annual Report

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Elsie Bourland Abbot

$ 25,000.00

William T. Bolton . .

555.22

Katherine F. Albert

295.47

Nellie F. Bonney . . .

3,886.54

Elizabeth B. Allen . .

500.00

Betsey J. Bowles . . .

9,798.75

Frank G. Allen

1,000.00

George W. Boyd . . .

5,000.00

Nora Ambrose,

Caroline E. Boyden

1,930.39

in memory of

300.00

Mary I. Brackett . . .

5,263.33

Isabel Anderson . . .

66,500.00

J. Putnam Bradlee .

294,162.53

James H. Anderson

28,366.17

Charlotte A. Brad-

Charlotte H.

street

23,273.49

28,147.05

Ellen F. Bragg

8,006.68

Fanny C. Appleton .

2,000.00

Max Brenner

200.00

James R. Archibald .

3,000.00

Lucy S. Brewer ....

10,215.36

Margaret Sears

Florence N. Bridg-

Mary Louise Aull . .

10,000.00
262,519.52

man

500.00

Ethel M. Brien

53,969.30

5,000.00

J. Edward Brown . .

100,000.00

Elizabeth B. Bailey .

3,000.00

Susan N. Brown . . .

500.00

Frederick A.

Walter S. Brutton . .

1,508.00

10,000.00

Joseph D. Buckley .

55,611.51

Eleanor J. W. Baker

2,500.00

Alice E. E. Buff

100.00

Alice H. Baldwin . .

5,000.00

Mabel E. Bulloch . .

2,000.00

Helen H. Ballou . . .

100,390.38

Malvina M. Bunker

13,393.93

Calvin W. Barker . .

1,859.32

Norma M. Burchell .

100.00

Lucy B. Barker,

Maria A. Burnham .

10,000.00

in memory of . . .

5,953.21

T. O. H. P. Burnham

5,000.00

Charles F. Barrows .

200.00

Abbie Y. Bun-

200.00

Marianne R.

Annie E. Caldwell . .

5,236.30

Bartholomew ....

21,462.95

Emma C. Campbell .

1,000.00

Francis Bartlett ....

2,500.00

3,412.01

Elizabeth Howard

Elizabeth Hobart

Bartol

5,000.00

Carter

7,710.83

Mary Bartol

300.00

Ellen G. Cary

50,000.00

Thompson Baxter . .

322.50

Katherine F. Casey .

100.00

Clara G. Beal

1,000.00

Edward F. Cate

5,000.00

Nellie F. Sprague

Robert R. Centra,

Bearse

1,000.00

in memory of ... .
Fanny Channing . . .

10,000.00

Herman J. Becker . .

4,696.76

2,000.00

Marion Hovey

Emily D. Chapman .

1,000.00

Beckett

2,150.00

Hettie Cheek, in mem-

Samuel Benjamin . .

250.00

ory of Christopher

500.00

Tompkins Cheek and

Eleanor Bigelow . . .

192.54

Valerie Leslie

Robert C. Billings . .

25,000.00

Cheek

343,500.00

Helen M. Binney . . .

3,823.41

Mary F. Cheever . . .

200.00

Helen Bisbee

2,000.00

Ida May Chickering

1,052.03

George Nixon Black

10,000.00

Alice M. Clement . .

39,904.87

Elizabeth M.

Mary A. Clement . .

767.96

10,000.00

Alice I. Cobb

2,000.00

25,000.00

87.00

Susan A. Blaisdell . .

5,832.66

Ann Eliza Colburn .

5,000.00

Dehon Blake

500.00

2,000.00

S. Malcolm Blanch .

1,000.00

Walter H. Collins . .

5,000.00

Mary Blight

7,220.99

Susan J. Conant ....

500.00

Perkins School for the Blind

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

The Frances W. and

A. Silver Emerson . .

500.00

William J. Connell

John V. Emerson . .

1,849.28

Memorial Fund

1,037.50

Martha S. Ensign . .

2,505.48

2,000.00

Orient H. Eustis . . .

500.00

William A. Copelai

id 1,000.00

Nellie H. Evans, in

Augusta E. Corbin

20,644.82

Memoriam, Ed-

Sandra Countway

5,000.00

ward H. Evans &

Nellie W. Cowles

3,088.03

Harlan Graham . .

36,123.40

Jennie L. Cox . . .

1,948.60

Antoinette Fagan . .

250.00

Louise F. Crane .

5,000.00

Eugene Fanning . . .

50.00

W. Murray Crane

10,000.00

Sarah M. Farr

64,247.43

Florence C. Cross

35.00

Annie L. Ferguson .

500.00

Harriet Otis Cruft

6,000.00

Mortimer C. Ferris

David Cummings

7,723.07

Memorial

1,000.00

436,325.29

Fidelity Management

Arthur B. Curtis .

1,722.25

& Res. Co

10,660.00

Charlotte A. Cushii

lg 8,669.09

Edward A. Fille-

Chastine L. Cushii

lg 500.00

brown

500.00

Edith Talbot Cutl

er 1,000.00

Annie M. Findley . .

500.00

Antoinette Da Pra

to 2,000.00

Anna G. Fish

10,583.25

George E. Daley .

1,541.72

Lucy A. Fisher ....

500.00

I. W. Danforth . .

2,500.00

Thomas B. Fitz-

Kate Kimball Dan-

patrick

1,000.00

forth

250.00

Alice Flanagan ....

20,970.19

Charles L. Davis .

1,000.00

Walter S. Flint

15,000.00

Charlotte E. Davis

2,000.00

John Forrest

1,000.00

Etta S. Davis

8,027.87

Ann Maria Fosdick .

14,333.79

Susan L. Davis . . .

1,500.00

Nancy H. Fosdick . .

3,937.21

Edith B. Davison .

56,207.10

Sarah E. Foster ....

200.00

10,000.00

Elwyn Fowler

5,232.75

Dorothy Dillon

Edith M. Fox

171,804.64

De Jonge

1,000.00

Mary Helen Freeman

1,000.00

Lilla B. Dearborn .

200.00

Cornelia Ann French

10,000.00

Eda E. Delano ....

500.00

Martha A. French . .

164.40

Ruth B. Delano . . .

5,000.00

Camille Elizabeth

Joseph Descalzo . .

1,000.00

Elsie C. Disher . . .

163,250.07

Sophie M. Fried-

John H. Dix

10,000.00
1,065.03

man

1,000.00

Mildred Donaldson

Ephraim L. Frothing-

Mary Frances Drow

n 21,857.25

ham

1,825.97

Anna B. Dustin . . .

5,000.00

Anna D. Fry

31,904.76

Alice J. H. Dwinell

200.00

Jessie P. Fuller ....

200.00

Mary T. Dwyer . . .

333.08

Mary A. Furbush . .

30,372.08

Amelia G. Dyer . . .

40,043.00

Ella E. Furey

500.00

8,375.18

Thomas Gaffield . . .

6,685.38

Ella I. Eaton

1,669.50

Mabel Knowles

Mary Agnes Eaton

3,660.91

Gage

5,000.00

Mary E. Eaton . . .

5,000.00

Lillian R. Garside . .

500.00

William Eaton ....

500.00

Lillian Gay

68,122.84

402.28

Edward L. Geary . .

2,000.00

David J. Edwards .

500.00

Albert Glover

1,000.00

Ruth Eldridge . . ,

61,679.74

Joseph B. Glover . . .

5,000.00

1,023.00

Marie M. Goggin . .

2,864.55

137th Annual Report

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Benjamin H.

Goldsmith

Emma F. Goldsmith
Charlotte L. Good-

now

Fred M. Goodwin . .

Ellis Gordon

Samuel Gordon ....
Annie M. Gorrie . . .
Maria W. Goulding .
Charles G. Green . .
Amelia Greenbaum .
Mary Louise Green-
leaf

Imogene C. Gregory
Elizabeth Grierson .
Sarah Hatch

Grover

Amalie F. L.

Grutzback

Louise A.

Grutzbach

Louis A. Grutzbach
William Guggenheim
Stephen Hadley ....

Ella G. Haig

Henry Hale

Ellen Page Hall

Olive N. Hall

George W.

Hamblet

Ellen Hammond .
Norah H. Harding
George H. Hardy
Albert Harrison . .
Margaret A. Harty
E. M. and A. G.

Hartwell

Helen P. Harvison
Grace D. Hatch . ,
Hattie S. Hathaway
Jerusha F. Hatha-

way

Lucy Hathaway . . .
Edward J. and

Georgia M.

Hathorne Fund .
William Hayball . .
Charles H. Hayden
John C. Haynes . . .
Gertrude R. Hazen
Mary E. T. Healy .
Annie T. Hedman .

43,317.20
500.00

6,471.23

1,122.55

150.00

500.00

3,994.73

2,332.48

45,837.70

500.00

199,189.94

450.00

10,000.00

13,039.11

17,500.00

33,000.00

50.00

7,794.26

1,750.00

1,000.00

10,037.78

1,000.00

25,000.00

1,000.00

10,756.48

26,997.86

100.00

5,000.00

3,000.00

1,000.00

83,003.85

500.00

5,000.00
4,577.00

50,017.68

1,788.40

34,893.41

1,000.00

1,134.73

200.00

500.00

Hattie H. Henry . . .
Alice Cushing Mer-
sey, in memory of
Joseph H. Heywood
Alfred S. Hewins . .
Frances O. Higgins .
Francis L. Higginson

Ira Hiland

Stanley B. Hildreth .

Annette S. Hill

George A. Hill

Ada F. Hislop

Lila M. Hodges ....
Margaret A. Holden
Theodore C. Hol-
lander

Bernard J. Holmberg
Mabel A. Home . . .
Alfred G. Hosmer .
Margaret J. Houri-

han

Gertrude H. Howard
William G. Howard
Lillian E. Hunter .
Clasiena H.

Huntress

Charles S. Hutchin-
son

Minnie Hecht Hyne

man

Katharine C. Ireson
Edwin E. Jack . .
Annie H. Jackson
Evart W. Jackson
Hattie Jacobs . . .
Lewis B. Jefferds, in
memory of Eva M

Jefferds

Charles T. Jenkins
William S. Jenney,
memory of ....
Charlotte Johnson
Edwin C. Johnson
Mabel S. Jordan
Annie G. Joyce
Celia Kaplan . .
Eliza J. Kean . .
James C. Keith
Marie L. Keith
Rose J. Kelly . .
Marie Jose Kellogg
Harriet B. Kempster
Ernestine M. Kettle

1,000.00

3,000.00

500.00

40,000.00

2,000.00

5,004.73

3,893.37

5,000.00

23,500.00

100.00

25.00

1,000.00

3,708.32

3,016.00

2,000.00

1,000.00

229.28

200.00
5,000.00
5,000.00

100.00

500.00
2,156.00

2,000.00
52,037.62
13,497.77
12,910.94

5,000.00
10,696.68

5,178.20
7,625.07

500.00

525.00

1,000.00

500.00

250.00

100.00

59,209.91

5,000.00

2,000.00

292.26

312,938.74

1,144.13

22,981.31

Perkins School for the Blind

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

B. Marion Keyes . .

6,350.00

Lulu S. Kimball . .

10,000.00

Florence I. King . .

3,000.00

Grace W. King . . .

100.00

Lloyd A. Kirkpatrick 5,000.00

Harvey L. Kline . .

2,000.00

Augusta Klous ....

5,000.00

Charles H. Knott .

500.00

Lydia F. Knowles .

50.00

Davis Krokyn ....

100.00

Emelda Quesnal La

Croix

1,000.00

Catherine M. Lam-

son

6,000.00

James J. Lamson . .

750.00

Susan M. Lane . . .

815.71

Isabel H. Lang . . .

47,457.65

Grace Gordon Lati

mer

5,000.00

Elizabeth W. Lead

better

2,638.71

3,544.31

1,000.00

Luella K. Leavitt .

1,011.67

Lewis A. Leland . .

415.67

Ruth W. Levi

500.00

Benjamin Levy . . .

500.00

Elias Levy

500.00

E. E. Linderholm .

505.56

William Litchfield .

7,951.48

Harvey B. Locke . .

500.00

Mary T. Locke . . .

8,361.89

Gertrude P. Lord . .

2,000.00

Margarita F. Lord,

in memory of

Margaret Leonard 3,000.00

Hannah W. Loring

9,500.00

Marjorie C. Loring

5,000.00

Jennie Louis

1,132.79

Israel Louis

1,993.71

William E. Lowry .

5,000.00

Celia E. Lugene . . .

300.00

Adolph S. Lundin .

100.00

Susan B. Lyman . .

4,809.78

Anna P. MacKay .

2,250.00

Agnes J. MacNevin

78,968.67

Alice B. Madison .

1,000.00

Guy W. Mailman .

1,000.00

Susan B. Mailman .

1,000.00

Frank G. Maliff . . .

7,500.00

Mary Ella Mann . .

250.00

Elizabeth M. Mann

1,301.10

Blanche Osgood

Mansfield 1,000.00

Harry Marcus 500.00

Annie B. Marion . . 8,745.66

Antonio Marotta . . 200.00

Rebecca Marks 2,640.40

Stephen W. Marston 5,000.00

Elizabeth S. Martin . 1,000.00

Mark Mason 5,000.00

William H. Maynard 22,82 1 .56
Maynard R. McCan-

dless 1,000.00

Patrick H. McCarthy 7,692.23

James C. McDonald 1,000.00

Cora Mclntire 6,862.50

Serafina Lena Meo . 2,176.10
Arthur Clarke

Melcher 57,000.00

Charles Merriam . . . 1,000.00

Florence B. Merrill . 1,000.00

Franklin S. Merritt . 5,667.02
Lottie M. Merry, in

memory of Minnie

D. Merry 500.00

Ada M. Miller 5,388.71

Mary H. Miller 1,512.50

Pauline W. Miller . . 985.97

Olga E. Monks 2,500.00

George Montgomery 5,140.00

Martha H. Morss . . 3,000.00

Mertie B. Morton .. 31,563.33

Jennie Moschello . . . 2,000.00
Louise C. Moulton

Bequest 7,891.65

Mary A. Muldoon . . 100.00

Rosa A. Mulrey 1,000.00

Adelaide F. Munsey 1,000.00

Mary T. Murphy . . . 10,000.00

Sarah Ella Murray . 8,000.00

Marie F. J. Nash . . . 77,500.00

Sarah M. Nathan . . 500.00

Henry Nemrow 100.00

David Nevins 92,091.80

Jeanne Nielson 500.00

Joseph Noel 70,465.79

Joseph F. Noera . . . 2,000.00

Leonard L. Nones . . 395.82

Charles L. Noonan . 1,000.00

Henry P. Norris . . . 35,219.74

Annie Anthony Noyes 1 00.00

Mary B. Noyes 915.00

Richard W. Nutter . 2,000.00

Ella Nye 50.00

100

137th Annual Report

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Mildred S. Nye

15,000.00

Harold L. Olmstead

11,401.56

S. Louise Ellis Orr .

13,500.00

William F. O'Reilly

1,000.00

Emily C. O'Shea . . .

1,000.00

Isabella T. Palan . . .

250.00

Sarah Irene Parker .

699.41

William Prentiss

2,500.00

George Francis Park-

man

50,000.00

Grace Parkman ....

5,383.78

Fanny W. Paulding .

110,492.71

Philip G. Peabody . .

1,200.00

Elizabeth W.

Perkins

2,000.00

Ellen F. Perkins . . .

2,500.00

Vera L. Perry

2,000.00

Edward D. Peters . .

500.00

Lucy A. Phillips ....

50,000.00

Clara F. Pierce ....

2,005.56

Clara J. Pitts

2,000.00

Anna M. Place ....

13,000.00

George F. Poland . .

75.00

Elizabeth B. Porter .

5,449.50

George M. Porter . .

20,828.61

Marion S. Potter . . .

25,000.00

Sarah E. Pratt . ,

2,988.34

Sarah S. Pratt

5,000.00

Mary C. Priest

14,929.35

Aaron Pritzker ....

56.51

Francis I. Proctor . .

10,000.00

137,932.21

Rose Rabinowitz . . .

50.00

Barbara Caroline

Ralph

28,437.42

Emma Dora Ray . . .

50,696.73

Grace E. Reed

5,054.25

Carrie P. Reid

679.51

Edwina F. Resor . . .

1,000.00

Leonard H.

Rhodes

1,012.77

Mabelle H. Rice . . .

3,750.00

Alice M. A. Richard-

son

25,000.00

Matilda B. Richard-

son

300.00

William L. Rich-

ardson

50,000.00

Myer Riesman

1,000.00

Henry P. Robbins . .

8,791.00

Katherine F. Robbins

5,126.35

Ida Robbins

5,000.00

Anne Augusta Robin-
son

Julia M. Roby

Robert Rodgers ....
Eliza Findlay Rogers
Helen K. Rogers . . .

John Roome

Eda C. Rosengren . .
Morris Rosenthal . . .
Barbara S. Ross ....
Bernard J. Rothwell
Henrietta Goodrich

Rothwell

Joseph Rowe ....
Benjamin Rudnick
Mary L. Ruggles .
Mary Frances Russ
Elizabeth H. Russell
Josephine Russell
Marian Russell . .
Nancy E. Rust . . .
William H. Ryan .
Amy M. Sacker . .
Emily E. St. John
Eleanor Saltonstall
Florence Sanborn
Virginia A. Sander-
son

Augustus Saxe ...
Alfred Scaramelli
Joseph Schofield .
Louis H. Scholosberg
Louise H. Schubeler
George H. Schultz
Sarah E. Seabury
Edward O. Seacomb

Ethel G. Sears

Minnie S. Seaver . .
Jessie S. Seavey . . .

Ida Seldov

Richard Black Sewell
Burt Harold Shaw .
Benjamin H. Shel-

ton

Charles F. Sherman
Robert F. Shurtleff
Carrie Etta Silloway
John Simonds . . .
Marion P. Sinclair
Anne Morton Smith
Arthur A. Smith
Charles L. Smith
Ellen V. Smith .

212.20

500.00

100.00

5,000.00

28,179.08

5,787.67

758.15

1,000.00

2,740.35

2,010.52

500.00
12,921.61

500.00
3,000.00
1,128.44

500.00

500.00
5,000.00
2,640.00
8,023.48
1,000.00
5,015.00
15,000.00
4,295.89

48,508.61

509.35

761.82

2,500.00

100.24

4,438.32

2,052.68

3,116.01

1,000.00

20,864.54

260.76

500.00

25,000.00

200.00

19,323.49
2,000.00
1,432.94
5,429.88
50.00
500.00
5,000.00

10,000.00
5,000.00

25,000.00

Perkins School for the Blind

101

General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Esther W. Smith . . .

5,000.00

Sarah F. Smith

3,000.00

Ellis L. Snider

250.00

The Maria Spear Be-

quest for the Blind

15,000.00

Henry F. Spencer . .

1,000.00

Martha Sperber ....

50.00

Charlotte S. Sprague

13,229.23

Thomas Sprague . . .

1,000.00

Alice M. Stanley . . .

100.00

Adella E. Stannard .

1,631.78

Louie R. Stanwood .

1,000.00

Cora N. T. Steams .

53,739.10

Lucy B. Stearns ....

6,770.79

Eugenia A. Stein . . .

1,000.00

Hattie V. Stephenson

1,394.00

Frank W. Sticher . .

18,943.51

Henry A. Stickney .

2,410.00

Lucretia J. Stoehr . .

2,967.26

Joseph C. Storey . . .

122,531.58

Edward C. Sullivan .

2,000.00

Sophronia S. Sunbury

365.19

Shepard H. Swain

Fund

1,000.00

16,871.98

Emma B. Swasey . .

2,250.00

Mary F. Swift

1,391.00

Frank R. Tackaberry

2,500.00

William Taylor

893.36

Mary DeWolf

3,000.00

Minnie L. Thayer . .

1,000.00

Marion M. Thomas .

2,000.00

Joanna C. Thompson

1,000.00

Mabel E. Thompson

8,738.61

Minnie B. Thompson

5,821.90

Agnes F. Thurston .

65,566.62

Anna B. Tibbitts . . .

2,000.00

Elizabeth Tilton . . .

3,000.00

William Timlin

7,820.00

Alice W. Torrey . . .

71,560.00

Edith M. Tourtellot

1,171.92

Evelyn Wyman Towle

7,020.00

Stephen G. Train . .

20,000.00

Sarah E. Trott

2,885.86

John L. Tucker ....

57,620.80

Mary Wilson Tucker

481.11

Jennie A. Tuttle . . .

27,809.29

George B. Upton . . .

10,000.00

Maude C. Valentine

1,884.22

Grace C. Van Nor-

den

50,138.57

Charles A. Vaille . .

1,990.00

Bessie G. Veazie .
Helen M. Viano . .
Bernard T. Vierich
Harold L. Vinal .
Abbie T. Vose . . .
Nancies S. Vose .
Horace W. Wadleigh
Joseph K. Wait .
Amelia L. Walker
Harriet Ware ...
Allena F. Warren
Elizabeth M. Warren
William H. Warren
Frank Washington
Sarah A. Watson . .
Eleanore C. Webb .
Charles F. Webber
Solomon Weinstein
Leo Weidhorn ....
Mary E. Welch . . .
Mary Ann P. Weld
Henry Wentworth .
Oliver M. Wentworth
Cordelia H. Wheeler
Opha J. Wheeler . . .
Eliza Orne White . .
Ella Tredich White .
Porter W. Whitmarsh
Ruth E. Whitmarsh .
Sarah L. Whitmarsh
Samuel Brenton

Whitney

Martha A. Wilcomb
Alice F. Willard . . .
Adelia C. Williams .
Fred H. Williams . .
Judson Williams . . .
Clara R. Williamson
Alice M. Wilson . . .
Lucy B. Wilson, in

memory of

Mehitable C. C. Wil-

son

Nettie R. Winn . . .
Samuel C. Wiswall
Minnie S. Woolfe .
Esther F. Wright . .
Thomas T. Wyman
Fanny Young ....

Lyde Young

William B. Young
Suspense

500.00
2,000.00

593.06

500.00
1,000.00

300.00

2,000.00

3,000.00

1,000.00

1,952.02

2,828.33

1,000.00

4,073.17

13,813.78

10,000.00

5,314.95

30,915.93

1,000.00

5,000.00

200.00
2,000.00
2,000.00

300.00

800.00
3,852.74
4,621.42
1,000.00
88,247.05
1,000.00
2,000.00

1,000.00
5,000.00
3,272.18
1,000.00
1,755.74
3,628.46
1,000.00
11,526.49

800.00

543.75
1,000.00

125.00

9,259.38

6,427.76

20,000.00

8,000.00

500.00

1,000.00

1.00

$7,157,408.43

102

137th Annual Report

General — School (Continued)

Funds functioning as endowments — Income

Add:

Distributions of Sur-
plus:
August 31,

1947 37,159.87

August 31,

1963 1,360,789.15

$8,555,357.45
Deduct
Net transfer to Plant

Capital 3,253,604.18

General — Kindergarten:

Emilie Albee

Lydia A. Allen ....

Michael Anagnos . .

Harriet T. Andrew .

Martha B. Angell . .

Mrs. William Apple-
ton

Elizabeth H. Bailey .

Eleanor J. W. Baker

Ellen M. Baker

Mary D. Barrett . . .

Nancy Bartlett Fund

Sidney Bartlett

Emma M. Bass ....

Sarah E. J. Baxter . .

Thompson Baxter . .

Robert C. Billings . .

Harriet M. Bowman

Sarah Bradford ....

Helen C. Bradlee . .

J. Putnam Bradlee .

Charlotte A. Brad-
street

Ellen F. Bragg

Lucy S. Brewer ....

Sarah Crocker
Brewster

Ellen Sophia Brown

Mary E. Brown ....

Rebecca W. Brown .

Harriet Tilden
Browne

Katherine E. Bul-
lard

Annie E. Caldwell .

$5,301,753.27

150.00

748.38

3,000.00

5,000.00

34,370.83

18,000.00

500.00

2,500.00

13,053.48

1,000.00

500.00

10,000.00

1,000.00

51,847.49

322.50

10,000.00

1,013.22

100.00

140,000.00

194,162.53

13,576.19
8,006.69
7,811.56

500.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
8,977.55

2,000.00

2,500.00
5.000.00

unrestricted:

John W. Carter

Kate H. Chamber-

lin

Adeline M. Chapin .
Benjamin P. Cheney
Fanny C. Coburn . .
Charles H. Colburn
Helen Collamore . .
Anna T. Coolidge . .
Mrs. Edward Cordis
Sarah Silver Cox . .
Lavonne E. Crane . .
Susan T. Crosby . . .
Margaret K. Cum-

mings

James H. Danford . .
Catherine L. Don-

nison Memorial . .
George H. Downes .
Amanda E. Dwight .
Lucy A. Dwight . . .

Harriet H. Ellis

Mary E. Emerson . .
Mary B. Emmens . .
James E. English . .
Arthur F. Estabrook
Ida F. Estabrook . . .
Orient H. Eustis . . .
Annie Louise Fay

Memorial

Sarah M. Fay

Charlotte M. Fiske .
Ann Maria Fosdick .
Nancy H. Fosdick . .

Fanny Foster

Margaret W. Froth-

ingham

J. Franklin Gammell
Elizabeth W. Gay . .
Ellen M. Gifford ..
Joseph B. Glover . .
Mathilda Goddard .

Anna L. Gray

Maria L. Gray

Amelia Greenbaum .
Caroline H. Greene
Mary L. Greenleaf .
Josephine S. Hall
Allen Haskell . . .
Mary J. Haskell .
Jennie B. Hatch . .
Olive E. Hayden .

500.00

5,715.07

400.00
5,000.00

424.06

1,000.00

5,000.00

53,873.38

300.00
5,000.00
3,365.21

100.00

5,000.00
1,000.00

1,000.00
3,000.00
6,295.00
4,000.00
6,074.79
1,000.00
1,000.00
29,414.71
2,000.00
2,114.00
500.00

1,000.00
15,000.00

5,000.00
14,333.79

3,937.21
378,087.49

500.00
6,657.38
7,931.00
5,000.00
5,000.00

300.00
1,000.00

200.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
5,157.75
3,000.00

500.00
8,687.65
1,000.00
4,622.45

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General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Thomas G. Hiler . . .

Jane H. Hodges

Margaret A. Holden
Marion D. Hollings-

worth

Frances H. Hood
Abigail W. Howe
Ezra S. Jackson .
Caroline £. Jenks
Caroline M. Jones
Ellen M. Jones . ,
Hannah W. Kendall
Cara P. Kimball . .
David P. Kimball .
Moses Kimball . . .
Ann E. Lambert. . .
Jean Munroe Le

Brun

Willard H. Leth-

bridge

Frances E. Lily . . .
William Litchfield .
Mary Ann Locke .
Robert W. Lord . .
Lewis W. Lothrop .
Sophia N. Low . . .
Thomas Mack ....
Augustus D. Manson
Calanthe E. Marsh
Sarah L. Marsh . . .

Waldo Marsh

Annie B. Mathews
Rebecca S. Melvin
Georgina Merrill .

Ira I. Moore

Louise Chandler

Moulton

Maria Murdock . . .
Mary Abbie Newell
Frances M. Osgood
Margaret S. Otis . .
Jeannie Warren

Paine

Anna R. Palfrey . .
Sarah Irene Parker
Anna Q. T. Parsons
Helen M. Parsons
Caroline E. Peabody
Elward D. Peters . .
Henry M. Peyser .
Mary J. Phipps . . .
Caroline S. Pickman
Katherine C. Pierce

3,000.00 Helen A. Porter . . . 50.00

300.00 Sarah E. Potter En-

2,360.67 dowment Fund .. 425,014.44

Francis L. Pratt 100.00

1,000.00 Mary S. C. Reed . . . 5,000.00

100.00 Emma Reid 952.38

1,000.00 William Ward

688.67 Rhoades 7,507.86

100.00 Jane Roberts 93,025.55

5,000.00 John M. Rodocana-

500.00 chi 2,250.00

2,515.38 Dorothy Roffe 500.00

10,000.00 Clara Bates Rogers . 2,000.00

5,000.00 Rhoda Rogers 500.00

1,000.00 Mrs. Benjamin S.

700.00 Rotch 8,500.00

Rebecca Salisbury . . 200.00

1,000.00 Henry Saltonstall .. 3,222.34

J. Pauline Schenkl. 10,955.26

28,179.41 Joseph Schofield ... 3,000.00

1,000.00 Eliza B. Seymour . . 5,000.00

6,800.00 John W. Shapleigh . 1,000.00

5,874.00 Esther W. Smith . . . 5,000.00

1,000.00 Annie E. Snow 9,903.27

1,000.00 Adelaide Standish . . 5,000.00

1,000.00 Elizabeth G. Stuart . 2,000.00

1,000.00 Elizabeth B. Swan . . 13,814.46

8,134.00 Benjamin Sweetzer . 2,000.00

18,840.33 Sarah W. Taber 1,000.00

1,000.00 Mary L. Talbot 630.00

500.00 Ann Tower Tarbell . 8,529.40

45,086.40 Cornelia V. R.

23,545.55 Thayer 10,000.00

4,773.80 Delia D. Thorndike 5,000.00

1,349.09 Elizabeth L. Tilton . 300.00

Betsey B. Tolman . . 500.00

10,000.00 Transcript, ten dollar

1,000.00 fund 5,666.95

5,903.65 Mary Wilson Tucker 481.11

1,000.00 Mary B. Turner . . . 7,582.90

1,000.00 Royal W. Turner . . 24,089.02

Minnie H. Underhill 1,000.00

1,000.00 Charles A. Vialle . . 1,990.00

50.00 Rebecca P.

699.41 Wainwright 1,000.00

4,019.52 George W. Wales 5,000.00

500.00 Maria W. Wales 20,000.00

3,403.74 Gertrude A. Walker . 178.97

500.00 Mrs. Charles E. Ware 4,000.00

5,678.25 Rebecca B. Warren . . 5,000.00

2,000.00 Jennie A. (Shaw)

1,000.00 Waterhouse 565.84

5,000.00 Mary H. Watson 100.00

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General — School (Continued)
Funds functioning as endowments — Income unrestricted:

Ralph Watson

Memorial . . .
Isabella M. Weld
Mary Whitehead
Evelyn A. Whitney

Fund

Julia A. Whitney
Sarah W. Whitney
Betsey S. Wilder .
Hannah Catherine

Wiley

Mary W. Wiley .
Martha A. Willcomb
Mary Williams . . .
Almira F. Winslow
Eliza C. Winthrop
Harriet F. Wolcott

237.92

14,795.06

666.00

4,992.10
100.00
150.62
500.00

200.00
150.00
5,000.00
5,000.00
306.80
5,041.67
5,532.00

$2,127,515.15

Add:

Distribution of Sur-
plus:

August 3 1, 1947 529,435.57
August 3 1, 1963 1,010,902.74

$3,667,853.46

Deduct:

Transfer to Plant
Capital at August
31, 1947 634,744.69

$3,033,108.77
$8,334,862.04

HOWE MEMORIAL PRESS FUNDS

Income restricted:

Adeline A. Douglas (printing raised characters) $ 5,000.00

Harriet S. Hazeltine (printing raised characters) 2,000.00

Thomas D. Roche (publication non-sectarian books) 1,883.84

J. Pauline Schenkl (printing) 10,955.26

Deacon Stephen Stickney Fund

(books, maps and charts) 5,000.00

Income unrestricted:

Beggs Fund $ 1,000.00

Joseph H. Center 1,000.00

C. W. Hagerty 295.56

Augusta Wells 10,290.00

$24,839.10

12,585.56

$37,424.66

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ADDENDUM A

Extracts from

STATEMENTS OF PETER J. SALMON, ADMINISTRATIVE VICE
PRESIDENT, THE INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR THE BLIND,
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK; AND ROBERT J. SMITHDAS, ASSO-
CIATE DIRECTOR, SERVICES FOR DEAF-BLIND, THE INDUS-
TRIAL HOME FOR THE BLIND, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK July
18, 1968

Mr. Smithdas: Honorable Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
I am Robert J. Smithdas, Associate Director, Services for the Deaf-
Blind, of the Industrial Home for the Blind, Brooklyn, New York. I
have submitted previously a formal statement to this subcommittee but
today I would like to take the opportunity of speaking extemporane-
ously because I would like to express what I think and what I feel in
my heart. I am especially grateful to have this opportunity to speak to
this subcommittee and to tell of the problems and the needs of our
deaf -blind people. I am also grateful for the fact that I have the gift of
speech to tell of those needs and problems. It is difficult to describe what
deafness and blindness means to a person who has lost his sight and
hearing. Blindness or deafness in themselves are serious handicaps but
when they are combined together and the person is afflicted by both dis-
abilities at the same time, the aspects of the problem are peculiarly under-
standable only to the deaf-blind person. Today, we have over 500 deaf-
blind children who are in need of education. At the present time, we
have seven departments for special education of these children, but
approximately only 100 of them are being trained at this time and
the others who should be educated are being neglected simply because
there are not enough facilities.

Years ago when I went to college at St. John's University and New
York University, my own efforts were considered an experiment be-
cause, you see, years had passed since the time Helen Keller graduated
from Radcliffe. The fact that I was successful in my studies is not only
due to my own efforts but to the faith and confidence of my family,
friends, and the teachers who have given me encouragement during
all of these years.

Since I graduated with a Master's degree in 1953, six other deaf-
blind persons have gone into higher education and won degrees and
are now employed in professional work. This is a small beginning.
There are many deaf-blind persons who have not had these opportuni-
ties. They are in need of help. At the Industrial Home for the Blind,
we have established various methods and techniques to be used in
communication and mobility for the deaf-blind so that they could be
placed in outside industry in employment where they could earn a liveli-
hood and gain some measure of happiness and social well being.

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Perhaps we should think of deafness and blindness as a multiple
handicap because you have not only the physical disabilities of deaf-
ness and blindness but also the acute problem of mobility, communica-
tion, social adjustment and a particular place in society.

It has become obvious to me for many years that our deaf-blind
people have a life to lead and a burning desire to achieve their goal to
overcome their obstacles wherever possible. When they are given oppor-
tunities for self-expression and to utilize the talents and the abilities
that God has given them they have shown that they have the courage
and willingness to attain those purposes.

Last February, President Johnson made a proposal to Congress re-
garding the Center for Rehabilitation for Deaf-Blind Persons. It is
heart-warming and thrilling to realize that you, Mr. Daniels, and the
other members of this subcommittee are pursuing this proposal and are
willing to listen to the cause of our deaf -blind people.

Mr. Daniels: Mr. Smithdas, as chairman for the subcommittee and on be-
half of all of the members, the committee desires to compliment you
for an excellent presentation. I also wish to commend you for your
educational, your scholastic and occupational achievements. I am fa-
miliar with your biography and it is indeed a remarkable one.

Mr. Salmon: Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee. I am Peter J.
Salmon, Administrative Vice-President of The Industrial Home for the
Blind in Brooklyn, New York. I am testifying for that agency. I also
have the privilege to testify on behalf of the American Association of
Workers for the Blind and to present, which I have done with my testi-
mony in a resolution endorsing H.R. 8981, particularly in relation to
the National Center for the Deaf-Blind. I know the time is running
short and I will try to skim through my testimony and not to repeat
too much of what has been so well said before.

My own interest goes back to my early days at Perkins School for
the Blind, where I seemed to have a natural affinity to these young fel-
lows who had the double handicap. So I became sort of a helper to
them and then when I graduated I came back and spent two years of
postgraduate work on the deaf-blind and this interest had become a
part of the endeavor of my whole working life from then on, which
counts, they tell me, some 50 years.

It was my good fortune to have become very early associated with
Helen Keller, who, like yourselves, I am sure, was and still is my idol,
and we have worked very closely over the years. It was not so many
years ago that severely handicapped people, including the blind, were
people apart and except for some outstanding individuals who suc-
ceeded on their own, the situation was a desperate one.

Last year the Perkins School for the Blind and The Industrial Home
for the Blind co-sponsored an education project beginning April 1,
1966, and continuing to date, celebrating the centennial of the birth

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of Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's beloved teacher. This endeavor
brought results far beyond the expectations of the sponsors in terms
of awakening interest for deaf-blind persons. In fact, it has had an
effect throughout the world. We have entered, with our testimony, a
copy of the centennial report, which, among other things, lists some
eight deaf-blind persons and the awards they received for their accom-
plishments.

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, the preceding sketch
of the history of work for the deaf-blind does not really touch on the
main problem which still confronts us. The great majority of deaf-
blind persons are still languishing without service. Many of them are
isolated in their communities and indeed in their own immediate fami-
lies. Through the Anne Sullivan Macy Service, we have located several
deaf -blind persons who have been in mental institutions anywhere from
a few years to 30 years, persons who never should have been there in
the first place and who were there only because of a lack of communi-
cation and understanding of the deaf-blind person by the workers in
charge.

Mr. Daniels: There has been reference in the testimony earlier today to the
Perkins School up in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Mr. Salmon: Yes.

Mr. Daniels: Would you describe that institution to the committee, give us
some background material on it?

Mr. Salmon: Yes. The Perkins School is one of the three oldest schools in the
United States. The other two are the New York Institute for the Blind
at Pelham and the Overbrook School just outside of Philadelphia. Actu-
ally, they started so close together that after over almost a century and
a half they still have some debates as to who started first.

But Perkins is a private, privately operated School. It has over the
years taken children not only from its immediate area in Massachusetts
but a number of other States, and Perkins is the school where Laura
Bridgman received her education, which was mostly training. She never
achieved too much, but she was able to take care of herself and lived
a very good life. This was in 1837. She was, of course, the first deaf-
blind person to be so trained; so that when the problem of Helen
Keller came half a century later, Perkins who had in the meantime
trained some other deaf -blind persons were in a position to go forward
with this very stupendous problem. Anne Sullivan, who also was at
Perkins, was one of those who had this dedication that Mary Switzer
spoke of, which is the greatest ingredient, and she also had a number
of other qualities, including her determination that she was not going
to let this little rascal Helen Keller overcome her.

Of course, they became such wonderful friends, and I think it is to
Anne Sullivan's credit that she would never allow herself to overshadow

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Helen Keller. She always wanted her to be first. This is one of the rea-
sons we set up the centennial to honor this woman, who had a pro-
found effect on the education not only of deaf-blind children, but of
other handicapped children as well. Perkins School provides education
all the way from kindergarten through the high school and prepares the
students for the world, and an increasing number go on to higher edu-
cation. Miss Switzer made the address to the graduates in June, and a
number of the graduates were going on to college.

Mr. Daniels: The Chair desires to ask one question and the hour is getting
late and I want to give my colleagues the opportunity of addressing you.

Mr. Salmon: Chairman Daniels, I am afraid you made a mistake in asking
me about Perkins because I have been tempted to go on and on.

Mr. Daniels: Are services rendered by Perkins to these children from the
elementary grades up to high school and preparing them for college,
are they rendered free of charge, is there a fee attached?

Mr. Salmon: There is a fee attached. With respect to deaf-blind, the fee is
$6,000. Actually Perkins finds that it costs nearly $14,000 to educate
the child.

Mr. Daniels: Is that an annual Fee?

Mr. Salmon: Yes. That fee is paid for very often by the State or a combina-
tion of the State and the voluntary agencies as in our own case.

Mr. Daniels: Who makes up the difference between the $6,000 fee charged
and, you say, the cost of $14,000?

Mr. Salmon: Perkins has a large endowment. They are, you know, about
135 years old or so and they have built up a wonderful reputation and
built up a very substantial endowment fund. Dr. Waterhouse will
surely be testifying when this Bill for education of deaf-blind children
is ready. I know he will give you much more information.

Mr. Steiger: This has been a very moving and a very good day. Thank you
for coming, and thanks to Mr. Smithdas for his book, because I look
forward to reading it. Thank you both very much.

Mr. Daniels: Dr. Salmon and Mr. Smithdas, I want to compliment you again
for your wonderful testimony here today. It has been most illuminating
and enjoyable and it was a pleasure to have you here and likewise
Miss Switzer. I was glad to have you here.

Miss Switzer: I was glad to be here.

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ADDENDUM B

Extracts from

ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

AMENDMENTS OF 1967

"Part C — Centers and Services for Deaf-Blind Children

"Sec. 609. (a) It is the purpose of this part to provide, through a limited
number of model centers for deaf-blind children, a program designed to
develop and bring to bear upon such children, beginning as early as feasible
in life, those specialized, intensive professional and allied services, methods,
and aids that are found to be most effective to enable them to achieve their
full potential for communication with and adjustment to the world around
them, for useful and meaningful participation in society, and for self-fulfill-
ment.

"(b) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to or contracts with
public or nonprofit private agencies, organizations, or institutions to pay all
or part of the cost of establishment (including, when necessary, construction)
or operation, or both, of centers for deaf -blind children.

"(c) In determining whether to make a grant or contract under sub-
section (b), the Secretary shall take into consideration the need for a center
for deaf -blind children in the light of the general availability and quality of
existing services for such children in the part of the country involved.

"(d) (1) A grant or contract pursuant to subsection (b) shall be made
only if the Secretary determines that there is satisfactory assurance that the
center will provide such services as he has by regulation prescribed, includ-
ing at least —

"(A) comprehensive diagnostic and evaluative services for deaf-blind
children;

"(B) a program for the adjustment, orientation, and education of deaf-
blind children which integrates all the professional and allied
services necessary therefor; and

"(C) effective consultative services for parents, teachers, and others
who play a direct role in the lives of deaf-blind children to en-
able them to understand the special problems of such children and
to assist in the process of their adjustment, orientation, and edu-
cation.

"(2) Any such services may be provided to deaf-blind children (and,
where applicable, other persons) regardless of whether they reside in the
center, may be provided at some place other than the center, and may in-
clude the provision of transportation for any such children (including an
attendant) and for parents.

"(e) The Secretary is further authorized, either as part of any grant or
contract under subsection (b), or by separate grant to or contract with an

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agency, organization, or institution operating a center meeting the require-
ments prescribed by or pursuant to subsection (d), to provide for the pay-
ment of all or part of the cost of such activities as —

"(1) research to identify and meet the full range of special needs of
deaf -blind children;

"(2) development or demonstration of new, or improvements in exist-
ing methods, approaches, or techniques which would contribute
to the adjustment and education of deaf -blind children;

"(3) training (either directly or otherwise) of professional and allied
personnel engaged or preparing to engage in programs specifically
designed for deaf-blind children, including payment of stipends
for trainees and allowances for travel and other expenses for them
and their dependents; and

"(4) dissemination of materials and information about practices found
effective in working with deaf-blind children."

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THE PERKINS ENDOWMENT

All these varied items were, when we acquired them, exploratory in
nature. Our history is full of "firsts" — first deaf-blind success, first graduate
to college, first kindergarten, first teacher-training course, first in physio-
therapy and speech correction.

One asset not listed above has made these pioneering endeavors possible.
This is our endowment.

In answering our visitor, we would be compelled to list our substantial
endowment among our most important assets; without it we would have
relatively few others.

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FORM OF BEQUEST

I hereby give, devise and bequeath to the Perkins School for
the Blind, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the sum of dollars

($ ), the same to be applied to the general uses and purposes

FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATE

(Here describe the real estate accurately)

with full power to sell, mortgage and convey the same free of all trust.

NOTICE

The address of the Treasurer of the corporation is as follows:

RALPH B. WILLIAMS
Fiduciary Trust Co., 10 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass. 02109.

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